Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to British Medical Journal study, entitled Uncovering the treatable burden of severe aortic stenosis in the UK, published January 2022, what assessment he made of the validity of the finding that the burden of severe aortic stenosis in the UK exceeds the capacity of the NHS to screen or treat the disease.

No specific assessment has been made. However, NHS England is finalising a revised commissioning policy to enable hospitals to provide transcatheter aortic valve implantation and surgical aortic valve replacement for symptomatic severe aortic stenosis in adults.