Meetings

The South Coast Summit will be a meeting involving clinicians, heart valve experts, patients and political figures brought together for a discussion that will provide a more detailed picture of the challenges and blockages to services that heart valve disease patients experience in the UK.

On 7 February, the team from Heart Valve Voice including PAG member and Trustee Pat Khan attended an interactive educational event about valve disease treatment at Blackpool Victoria Hospital.

The team from Heart Valve Voice including CEO Wil Woan, Trustee Pat Khan, NHS Patient and Public Advisor Neil Betteridge and Patient ambassadors Christine and Katharine Greenlands, Brenda Walker and Sandra Woodcock travelled to Cambridge to discuss an upcoming study to develop an new innovative stethoscope.

Wil Woan, CEO will be visiting the Cardiac Team at Royal Stoke University Hospital.

Representatives from each patient organisation involved in the European Heart Valve Disease Awareness Day will be meeting in Brussels to launch the European Heart Valve Disease Partnership Manifesto.

Heart Valve Voice is proud to be hosting the European Alliance here in Manchester. Following the success of our first European awareness day in 2018 the European Alliance are starting plans for 2019.

We are proud to announce that Heart Valve Voice is being hosted by Alliance du Coeur in Paris for the European Alliances’ second meeting in 2019.

Our first trustee meeting of 2019, the trustees meet four times a year to discuss the progress and planning of future events for Heart Valve Voice.

Heart Valve Voice UK is proud to host the Global Alliance in our hometown Manchester.

Heart Valve Voice will be launching its ‘Towards a Heart Healthy Future: A Gold Standard in the Diagnosis, Treatment and Management of Heart Valve Disease in Adults' in the next couple of weeks.

Heart Valve Voice UK will be joining Heart Valve Voice Japan in Tokyo to share the perspective of heart valve disease patients during treatment.

Today's seminar is a great example of progress that is being made on a regional level for heart valve disease patients.

Heart Valve Voice will be attending 'Next steps for reducing health inequalities in England - prevention, opportunities for innovation, local initiatives'.

The European Alliance which contain Alliance du Coeur, Aepovac, Croi, Cuore Italia, HartVolgers and Heart Valve Voice are meeting in Madrid to discuss the final stages of the European Awareness Week in September.

As part of the European Awareness Week, Heart Valve Voice will be hosting an educational webinar for Primary Care to learn more about heart valve disease.

Wilmington Health Care and Heart Valve Voice are hosting a webinar at 14.00 on the 17th of September. All healthcare professionals are welcome.

Heart Valve Voice will host a check-up event and drop-in for MPs on 5th July, Portcullis House

Heart Valve Voice's CEO to join with healthcare professionals from around the UK to discuss TAVI Trial

Heart Valve Voice will be attending 'Next steps for reducing health inequalities in England - Integration, digitisation and regulation'.

This conference focuses on priorities for the NHS Assembly - established to advise and drive the implementation of the NHS Long Term Plan - and its programme of work going forward.