The Importance of Health Screening

David Willis, CEO of Tomorrow Cardiovascular.

Last year we launched the UK’s first specialist Heart & Cardiovascular Prevention Health Clinic on the high street, in Knutsford, Cheshire. Supporting both individuals and company-wide health prevention strategies, we have an exciting few years ahead focused on our mission to minimise the impact of the world'js biggest health killer, heart & cardiovascular disease.

This is why this is so important to me…

No one knew it at the time but I was born with a major congenital heart condition, called a coarctation of the aorta. The aorta is the main artery in your body, and can be narrow just as it leaves the heart. If undiagnosed the outcome is fatal.

Until I was 5 everyone thought I was just lazy (probably true) not wanting to walk very far but one of the main symptoms is extreme tiredness in your legs because there was no blood getting to them (but of course no one knew that).

Thankfully, and by chance, a nurse listened to my heart and she heard a heart murmur (irregular heart beat) and quickly referred me for lots more tests.

It turned out I wasn’t actually lazy!

Three major open heart operations and big scars later (I tell my 3 kids I had a big fight with a shark) and a lifetime of follow-up, it was time to get on with life to do as much good in the world and bank as many memories as possible.

Now at 40, I’ve seen firsthand the impact of proactive screening, testing, and staying informed about my cardiovascular health - and what the consequences might have been without it. That experience drives my team and me to ensure everyone has the same chance for reassurance, the ability to live life fully, and the power to take control of what evidence shows is the most vital aspect of health.

We are here so you do not have to leave it to chance to protect and optimise your heart health.

I hope we welcome you soon for our lifesaving and lifechanging Tomorrow Health Checks and Wellness programmes that actually add years to your life and life to your years.

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David