Valve For Life UK

The UK Valve for Life initiative aims to improve and expand access to life-saving and life-changing minimally invasive ‘key-hole’ therapies for heart valve disease across the National Health Service.

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Patient Resources

Transcatheter Heart Therapies are a treatment for Aortic Stenosis. To understand more about treatment and Aortic Stenosis itself, click the links below.

About Aortic Stenosis

About Transcatheter Heart Therapies

Patient Stories

Truck Stops:

7 May – Roald Dahl Plass, Cardiff

9 May – ASDA Slough Superstore, Slough

13 May – The Clock Tower, Leicester

16 May – ASDA Byker Superstore, Newcastle

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If you're over 50 and would like a FREE heart health check, head to one of the above locations between 10am - 3pm to be seen by an NHS clinician.

TAVI In The UK

See The Full Results of our UK TAVI Survey

>5,000

TAVI procedures took place in 2019 in England with similar figures expected in 2020

78

TAVIs implanted per million people in the UK from 2018-2019

52%

of centres are unable to increase their capcity for TAVI procedures

72%

of centres state Catheter Lab Capacity as a factor that restricts TAVI expansion

Valve For Life In The News

Valve for Life's Bristol Bus Tour in the Daily Mail

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Valve for Life's Bristol Bus Tour Discussed on Talking Health

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YHEC TAVI Nurse Project

York Health Economics Consortium (YHEC) has undertaken a project to assess
the potential value that specialist TAVI nurses bring to the patient pathway within
the NHS, based on information obtained from TAVI nurses at seven hospitals in the
UK.