The National Heart Centre Singapore (NHCS) is a national and regional referral centre for cardiovascular diseases. Established in 1998, NHCS is the pioneer in cardiovascular care in Singapore.

NHCS is a member of SingHealth, the largest healthcare group in Singapore. SingHealth offers a complete range of multi-disciplinary and integrated medical care. The group consists of five hospitals, community hospitals, five national specialty centres and a network of polyclinics.

Clinical Excellence

NHCS provides a one-stop comprehensive cardiac care ranging from preventive, diagnostic, therapeutic to rehabilitative services. It is also the only centre in Singapore offering heart transplant and lung transplant programmes.

Each year, NHCS handles over 140,000 outpatient consultations, 9,000 interventional and surgical procedures and 10,000 inpatients. Its clinical outcomes for heart attack treatment, balloon angioplasty with stenting and coronary bypass surgery have been shown to be equivalent to international benchmarks.

NHCS ranked #12 as the World’s Best Cardiology Hospital by Newsweek 2025 and remains as the top cardiology hospital in Singapore. This follows several accolades such as Best Specialized Hospitals APAC 2025, and the placement among the Top 100 in the World’s Best Specialized Hospital for 2023, 2022, 2021 (SGH-Cardiology) & 2019. NHCS has also been named as one of Singapore’s Best Employers 2024 by The Straits Times and ranked top 5 in the healthcare and social category. Notably, NHCS is the only national specialty centre in the list of 250 employers.