Cardiovascular
Overview
ABHI Cardiovascular brings together HealthTech companies that provide technologies and services to support cardiovascular care in the UK. This brings together specialisms from across ABHI membership, including but not limited to the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of vascular, heart valve and stroke disease and cardiac rhythm management. It aims to raise the profile of the impact of cardiovascular disease, provide solutions to overcome the burden it places on the health and care system and the role the HealthTech sector can play.
Leadership
- Chair: Nick Walker, Edwards
Heart Valve
- Chair: TBC
- Vice Chair: TBC
Stroke
- Chair: TBC
Vascular
- Chair: Denise Bryceland, Terumo
- Vice Chair: Robert White, Boston Scientific
Achievements
- In partnership with a breadth of stakeholders developed and launched in parliament the ABHI Cardiovascular Health Check Report to raise the profile of disease burden and recommend how the UK health and care system can overcome existing challenges.
- Engagement with national stakeholders, such as Professor Simon Ray, National Clinical Director for Heart Disease, to enable joint collaboration on key focus areas.
- With ABHI member support, the Vascular Society has run the first pilot of a device-specific registry for abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) procedures and is now looking to expand the device specific nature of the registry into other clinical areas.
- Members regularly coordinate industry responses to government and associated organisations consultations, delivering broad stakeholder agreement and continued insight sharing. Recent examples have included NICE guidance on the treatment of Aortic Abdominal Aneurysms, NICE guidance on the treatment of Heart Valve disease and the ongoing Late Stage Assessment programme.
Priorities
To achieve the implementation of the recommendations outlined in the Cardiovascular Health Check Report. This includes four work areas:
- To coordinate activity across the sub-sector member groups so a collective voice can tackle common challenges, and industry collaboration is sought in programmes such as the Medical Device Outcome Registry programme.
- To better understand and tackle inequalities in access and treatment of cardiovascular care.
- To support cardiovascular patient representative groups in raising the profile of the disease burden.
- To highlight the benefits HealthTech can provide in early diagnosis and prevention, and how the health and care system can best enable this.
Useful Resources
- Click here to view the latest updates, minutes and future meeting dates for the group.
- Click here to access the ABHI Cardiovascular Disease Health Check Report.
Get Involved
To join the ABHI Cardiovascular group, contact eleanor.charsley@abhi.org.uk
Our Clinical & Patient Group Stakeholders Include:
- Alliance for Heart Failure
- Aortic Dissection Awareness
- Alliance for Heart Failure
- Aortic Dissection Awareness
- Aortic Dissection Charitable Trust
- Alliance for Heart Failure
- Arrythmia Alliance
- B&IS for Minimally Invasive Surgery
- British Heart Valve Society
- BISMICS
- British Cardiovascular Society
- British Cardiovascular Intervention Society
- British Society for Heart Failure
- British Society of Endovascular Therapy
- British Society of International Radiology
- British Heart Foundation
- Circulation Foundation
- Heart Valve Voice
- Lindsay Leg Club
- Pumping Marvellous
- Royal College of Radiologists
- Royal College of Surgeons
- Royal Society of Medicine, Cardiac Surgeon Chapter
- S for Cardiac Surgery
- Stroke Association
- Vascular Society
- Valve for Life
- Welsh CVD Society
“Where in your business life can you work hand-in-hand with industry colleagues and medical societies with an open, transparent and collaborative approach for the better good of the patients? The only place I can think of is ABHI Cardiovascular.”
Declan Dunphy, Cook Medical
