Rejected petition Require the NHS to introduce a treatment pathway for severe aortic stenosis

We urge Government to require the NHS to publish a plan for increasing the detection and timely treatment of those with this life-threatening condition, as it does for many cancers with comparable poor prognoses. A priority pathway for severe aortic stenosis could save thousands of lives.

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Heart valve disease affects over 1.5 million people in the UK. The most common form is narrowing of the aortic valve (aortic stenosis [AS]). Roughly 200,000 people currently have severe AS in the UK. Without proactive treatment, 50% of people who have symptoms due to severe AS will die within 2 years and 95% within 5 years.

While AS is serious, it is highly treatable by surgical or transcatheter valve replacement, and once treated, patients get back to a good quality of life, symptom-free.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

It’s about something that the UK Government or Parliament is not directly responsible for.

We can only accept petitions about things the Government or Parliament are directly responsible for.

Decisions about clinical care and whether to produce a strategy in respect of particular conditions are a matter for the NHS and individual clinicians, not the UK Government or Parliament.

We could accept a petition calling on the Government to provide additional funding for the care of people with severe aortic stenosis, if that's something you'd like to happen.

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 1 August 2022
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