Amazing heart experts deserve their award

Without the NHS I would be dead.

In 2014 I was diagnosed with a heart condition which saw me sent to Papworth Hospital for valve replacement surgery.

The doctors there are amazing – I know they won a Mirror NHS award this year for lifesaving research.

The surgery went well and now, despite some asthma, I am alive and well.

But without the surgery, Dr Steven Tsui said I wouldn’t have lived for longer than two years.

I can’t thank the NHS enough for everything it has done for me – and I can’t imagine Britain without it.

■ Pamela Toomey, 69, Huntingdon, Cambs