Somerville Heart Foundation is the only UK-wide charity dedicated to supporting young people and adults born with all forms of heart conditions, known as Congenital Heart Disease (or CHD).

We provide support, advocacy, communication, and a community for those we are here to help. We also campaign for their rights to receive excellent medical care to enable them to lead happy, healthy, and longer lives.

Our beliefs…

At Somerville Heart Foundation, we believe that every adult born with a congenital or inherited heart condition in the UK should have:

• Access to all necessary healthcare, delivered by appropriate specialists, quickly and easily.
• This includes access to mental health and psychological support where needed.
• An understanding of their condition to confidently make lifestyle choices and be joint decision-makers in their healthcare if they so desire.
• Have their voice heard in decisions made about healthcare delivery that affects their care. “Nothing about us, without us.”
• Knowledge about living with their condition, from driving, pregnancy, menopause, exercise etc.
• The confidence to talk about their condition to family, friends and in the workplace when required.
• Be recognised as someone with a long-term condition in the same manner as diseases such as diabetes.
• The ability to live their best life.