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Your Heart Matters bus tour comes to Manchester Posted or Updated on 22 Jul 2022

On Wednesday 10 August, the Your Heart Matters bus tour will be in Manchester in St Annes Square from 10am - 3pm, offering free stethoscope checks to over 60s and raising awareness of heart valve disease.

Your Heart Matters is a year long project between Heart Valve Voice and Valve for Life UK which aims raises awareness of heart valve disease and offer stethoscope and pulse checks to over 55s.

Awareness of the signs and symptoms of heart valve disease is low across the public with less than 3% knowing what Aortic Stenosis is.

The public can come on board the bus for a discussion with cardiac clinicians from local hospitals and learn about the symptoms of heart valve disease, the importance of regular stethoscope checks and will receive educational materials.