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

Rejected 9 signatures

What the petition asks

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.

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.

Why it was rejected

It asked for something that is not the responsibility of the UK Government or Parliament.

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.

Timeline

1 Aug 2022	Petition opened for signatures
3 Aug 2022	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 9

Status Rejected

Rejected 3 Aug 2022

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