10 November 2017

In partnership with the The Royal Photographic Society we will be launching ‘Patient Portraits: A New You’ a photography competition on the 5th December, encouraging keen photographers to capture heartfelt moments in time and convey what life after heart valve disease means to patients. The images captured will help raise awareness of heart valve disease, its prevalence and symptoms and educate audiences that with appropriate treatment, patients can return to a good quality of life.

Read full story

17 October 2017

Neil Betteridge is a Patient and Public Advisor for the NHS, an Improving Quality Co-Chair, Chronic Pain Policy Coalition & a Representative for the CRG Specialised Pain Services, NHS England. He works with Heart Valve Voice to ensure that we are optimising our patient advocacy and patient involvement. Here he talks about his work and how he has dedicated his time to see to it that patient’s voices are loud and clear.

Read full story

09 October 2017

Sunday night at the 2017 EACTS Conference, there was a friendly rivalry taking place in the form of a very exciting football game! For the second year in a row, the UK, represented by the Heart Valve Voice Football team, played their hearts out, figuratively of course, and managed to come in second place to the Russian representatives.

Read full story

06 October 2017

On the 2 October, Wil Woan, Chief Executive of UK valve disease charity Heart Valve Voice, attended a stakeholder briefing at Oxford Heart Centre at John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford. Along side Mr Mario Petrou, Consultant Cardiac Surgeon and Head of Programme for Complex Aortic Surgery, Wil met with Oxford East Member of Parliament Anneliese Dodds to discuss heart valve disease and its impact on the NHS and on patients both locally and throughout the UK.

Read full story

26 September 2017

​The recent EuroPCR London Valves conference was the perfect venue to announce the first ever European Heart Valve Disease Awareness Day that will be held in September 2018.

Read full story

25 September 2017

This week the team from Heart Valve Voice has been on the road attending a string of events and conferences in order to expand our knowledge and our reach with clinicians and valve disease experts.

Read full story

08 August 2017

Meet Marina, the newest member of our Patient Action Group.

Read full story

07 August 2017

​Later this year, Heart Valve voice will be hosting a South Coast Summit in Southhampton. The summit will ultimately work to establish examples of best practise as well as successful and innovative patient pathways for the diagnosis, treatment and management of heart valve disease.

Read full story

17 July 2017

As a consultant at Guy’s & St Thomas’s Hospital in London heart valve voice chairman, Chris Young treats heart valve patients every day as part of his job. However, when recently faced with having to see his two year old granddaughter, Connie, go through her own heart valve surgery he has seen the disease and what patients go through in a different light.

Read full story

29 June 2017

This week, the team from Heart Valve Voice attended an Interactive Educational evening hosted by the Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital (LHCH) where GPs and primary care specialists heard about new technologies and the referral process.

Read full story
« Return to News