Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if her Department will take steps to expand the number of hospitals providing transcatheter aortic valve implantation for aortic stenosis in Integrated Care Systems with only surgical aortic valve replacement available.

NHS England is finalising a revised commissioning position to enable hospitals to provide transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) and surgical aortic valve replacement (SAVR) for symptomatic severe aortic stenosis in adults. Patients in need of an aortic valve replacement will be assessed to determine whether a SAVR or TAVI procedure best meets their needs.