Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask His Majesty's Government what steps are being taken to ensure NHS pathways and commissioning decisions for heart valve disease align with the most up-to-date clinical guidelines.

In 2025, NHS England’s Getting It Right First Time programme published new and revised cardiology pathways to support evidence-based, including National Institute for Health and Care Excellence guidance, efficient, and consistent care across primary and secondary settings, including for aortic stenosis for patients with severe symptomatic heart valve disease.

NHS England has established an Expert Advisory Group on Heart Valve Disease with the aim of ensuring excellence in care whilst exploring ways to improve heart valve disease management nationwide.