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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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

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

Your Heart Matters Events

During International Heart Valve Disease Awareness Week (16th - 22nd September) the Your Heart Matters Truck will be at two different venues:
Tuesday 17th September:
Asda Lancaster Superstore, Ovangle Road, Lancaster, LA1 5JR
Thursday 19th September,
Asda Chesser Edinburgh,3 Market Road, Edinburgh, EH14 1RJ

No need to book, simply turn up between 10am-3pm for your chance to be seen by NHS doctors and nurses.

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.