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06 April 2016

Heart Valve Voice has announced the charity partnership with Lancashire Country Cricket Club Foundation to improve the diagnosis, treatment and management of heart valve disease by raising awareness of its severity and the need for timely detection across the cricket community.

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26 May 2016

New survey data highlights that 94% of the over 60s in the UK do not know what aortic stenosis is, and less than 3% say heart valve disease is the condition that gives them significant concern compared to other illnesses. This is despite annual mortality of untreated and severe aortic stenosis being considerably higher than most cancers* and approximately 1 million people over 65 years of age are thought to suffer from heart valve disease in the UK. Additionally, 72% of over 60s reported that they rarely, or never, have their hearts listened to by a doctor.

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16 May 2016

​Heart Valve Voice, in partnership with Everton in the Community (EitC), offered free heart valve disease check-ups for the over 60s. This service was available to Everton fans and the wider Merseyside community on the 15th May.

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07 April 2016

Heart Valve Voice has announced the charity partnership with Lancashire Country Cricket Club Foundation to improve the diagnosis, treatment and management of heart valve disease by raising awareness of its severity and the need for timely detection across the cricket community.

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05 April 2016

We are delighted to announce Heart Valve Voice will provide free heart disease check ups at the England ODI in July. Heart valve disease is a prevalent, life-threatening but very treatable disease if it is diagnosed and treated early. Yet, it is much misunderstood, with very poor public awareness of a disease which affects approximately 1 million UK people aged over 65.

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04 March 2016

Heart Valve Voice CEO will attend the SCTS conference in Birmingham, along side the secretariat.

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29 February 2016

​Heart Valve Voice, the UK charity for raising awareness of heart valve disease, has appointed a new Chair of Trustees.

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26 November 2015

Heart Valve Voice, a multidisciplinary group of leading physicians, surgeons and heart valve disease patients, has been granted charity status in Scotland. The charity aims to highlight the under-diagnosis and under-treatment of heart valve disease, which affects over one million people aged 65 and over in the UK. Heart Valve Voice was granted charity status in England and Wales in 2014 and has campaigned to raise awareness of heart valve disease amongst both patients and healthcare practitioners and improve diagnosis and referral rates throughout England and Wales.

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