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Posted by on Oct 19, 2015 in 2015, Awareness, CRY screenings

Book now for free @CRY_UK heart screenings in #Ealing in November #London

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The next free CRY heart screenings sponsored by the Tom Clabburn and Claire Prosser Memorial Fund will take place at the Florence Road Health Centre, Florence Road, Ealing, London, W5 3TX, on Sunday, November 15.

Anyone aged 14-35 is eligible. You can book here via www.testmyheart.org.

As ever, our thanks to Dr David Evans and the Florence Road team for making the premises available and to all of you who have run, jumped, baked, cycled, sold or done anything else that has raised the funds which allow these screenings to be free.

Please share the details on social media. In previous years, the screenings have always been over-scribed so book early!

Any questions, please contact CRY rather than us or the health centre. CRY’s contact details are here.

With thanks for all the ongoing support for CRY’s screening programme,

Paul and Ellen x

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Posted by on Aug 7, 2015 in 2015, Cardiac Risk in the Young, CRY screenings

Back to the future – no UK screening so it’s still down to @CRY_UK

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Tom Clabburn: “…so rare.” But not in the sense the UK NSC meant.

The announcement by the UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC) that it will not be recommending a national cardiac screening programme for young people aged 12-39 left me, as with much in life, with more questions than answers, a healthy dose of bewilderment, no little anger and much sadness.

Sadness because the UK NSC’s next review will not start until 2018/19. So we know from the outset that, based on CRY’s 12-a-week figure, just short of 2,000 more UK citizens, all of them young, will likely have died by the time anyone takes another look. Many could have lived.

That’s shameful.

Can you imagine if 12 cyclists were killed each week on London’s roads? That would be carnage. There would, quite rightly, be outrage, a huge public outcry. So why not in this case, too?

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Posted by on May 19, 2015 in 2015, Awareness, CRY screenings

BBC Radio 5 Live special tonight on young sudden cardiac death and screening

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A BBC Radio Five Live hour-long special on young sudden cardiac death and cardiac screening will be broadcast tonight at 8.30pm. Details here. The blurb suggests it will be available on the BBC iplayer after broadcast.

The show will be hosted by Mark Chapman and CRY Patron John Inverdale. It will include “… interviews with people who have lost relatives to the condition …” as well as CRY’s founder and chief executive, Alison Cox, and CRY’s consultant cardiologist, Professor Sanjay Sharma.

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Posted by on Apr 8, 2015 in 2015, CRY screenings, Ealing

CRY’s Ealing screenings underway

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Teacher Caroline Bischoff, centre, with the CRY team, left to right Lorna Carby, Peter Lewis, Sue Brown, Ralph Knox, Dr Alexandros Steriotis, Helen Budding and Kate Dougal.

 

A fully booked day of screenings sponsored by Tom and Claire’s Fund is underway at Drayton Manor High School, Drayton Bridge Road, W7. As ever, it could not have happened without all of you who have fund-raised.

Tom was a student at Drayton Manor and the idea of holding the event at the school came from one of his teacher’s, Caroline Bischoff, who has also raised awareness of CRY among pupils.

Paul Clabburn said: “We’re very grateful to Caroline for coming up with the idea and we’d like to thank Liz Stephenson and Guy Heyhoe from Drayton Manor for working with CRY in planning the event. We’re also grateful to Sir Pritpal Singh, head teacher, for allowing the premises to be used.

“It was lovely to be able to catch-up with the CRY screening team, some of whom we have worked with many times before. It’s fantastic that those being screened have the benefit of being tested by such a highly experienced and motivated team.”

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Posted by on Feb 26, 2015 in 2015, CRY screenings

Handful of places left for @CRY_UK free heart screenings #Ealing #Hanwell

 

Screening update: a limited number of free heart screenings are still available for booking for young people aged between 14-35 on Wednesday, April 8.

The event, which is almost booked-up, is taking place at Drayton Manor High School, Drayton Bridge Road, London, W7 1EU.

At the moment you can still book a CRY screening by going here and choosing “Book Appointment”.

The screenings are sponsored by the Tom Clabburn and Claire Prosser Memorial Fund.

 

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