00:01Thousands of people all across Wales suffer with heart disease and various
00:05cardiological issues. It's not always easy to get checks especially on the NHS
00:09it's very unlikely you can get a single-day check but the Your Heart
00:12Matters bus is coming around cities and towns all across the UK is here in
00:16Cardiff today and hundreds of people have turned out to make sure that
00:20everything's okay with the old ticker. Fantastic I can't believe it we've been
00:24waiting since 10 o'clock but we're very happy to wait it's a very good service
00:28very very important obviously preventative action is very important
00:33my dad had quadruple plus one heart bypass 15 years ago the NHS is marvelous
00:40they work very very hard they're doing a tremendous job today and prevention is
00:45better than cure. Yeah I think that's exactly it it's just doing your own MOT
00:49finding out if everything's okay and if not what you could do to prevent anything
00:54going wrong I think there's there's a lot of initiatives that you can get
00:58involved with to find out what's going on with your body the NHS do an awful lot of
01:04good screening things and we should all take advantage of them take the pressure
01:09off the NHS. Well I've seen it advertised and I thought I'm coming up to 66 this
01:14year and thought I'd get my heart checked out to see what it's all about. Today is
01:18about raising awareness around cardiac health and we're working in
01:23collaboration with Cardiff and Veil health board and third sector to deliver
01:27this session and it's fantastic so people have come out in really high numbers to
01:33to get some of these tests done and and it's an opportunity for people to speak to
01:38clinicians to get a bit of a to get a check and should there be the need we've got
01:44the technology and we've got the expertise on board to to follow that
01:47through. And heart valve disease can be something that sneaks up on patients
01:52creeps up on you insidiously and can affect you in terms of your symptoms so
01:57symptoms that are often attributed to just plain old aging can actually be
02:03sometimes due to degeneration of valves that occur of which there are four in the
02:09heart two predominant ones that function can get worse as one gets over. For the
02:15vast majority of people who come out here today the check will be a simple few
02:19minute job and they'll be out with it all clear but if doctors are concerned
02:23there could be an issue that inside this truck is some high-tech equipment that you
02:26can usually only find in hospitals and you can get checked and then find out if
02:30there are any more serious problems. And indeed some of my colleagues have been
02:34doing it all morning picked up some significant valve narrowings who are
02:38actually on waiting lists to see myself and other heart colleagues both in
02:44Cardiff and in the greater South Wales area to pick that up today. So we've got
02:49to make sure that those patients who do pick up significant murmurs on today get
02:53expedited and get seen pretty quickly that we recognize and get treated soon.
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