Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, on what date the NICE’s Interventional Procedures Advisory Committee is expected to meet to develop guidance on mitral valve replacement.

The National Institute for Health Care and Excellence (NICE) is developing interventional procedure guidance (IPG) on the insertion of neo-chordae into the beating heart for mitral regurgitation for valve repair, rather than replacement. The provisional schedule is as follows:

- First Committee meeting: 9 February 2023

- Interventional procedure consultation: 17 March 2023 to 18 April 2023

- Second Committee meeting: 8 June 2023

- Expected publication: 23 August 2023

NICE is monitoring transcatheter trans-septal mitral valve in-ring implantation and is awaiting publication of further literature or evidence.