Statements issued by the BHVS Statements issued by the BHVS, sometimes as a Joint Statement with other professional medical societies, in response to important issues concerning patients with heart valve disease. Statement on Rapid access treatment pathway for patients with severe symptomatic heart valve disease The British Heart Valve Society (more…)

Syllabus for heart valve disease This BHVS document describes the nationally agreed core syllabus for heart valve disease and will contribute to the definition of subspecialism in valve disease. (more…)

How to set up a Valve Clinic guide This guide is to help and support healthcare professionals who are interested in setting up a valve clinic. The guide describes 10 steps in establishing a valve clinic (Box 1). These recommendations are based on the personal experience of the authors that (more…)

Management of echocardiography requests for the detection and follow-up of Heart Valve Disease (more…)

The British Heart Valve Society Guideline The first EuroHeart Valve survey in 2003 showed significant limitations in the care of patients with heart valve disease throughout Europe. Since then there have been 7 sets of international guidelines and a large volume of published studies about heart valve disease but limitations (more…)