Booking for the Cardiac Risk in the Young free heart screenings in Ealing, sponsored by Tom and Claire’s Fund, open tomorrow from 3pm. They will become available here.
The screenings are open to anyone aged 14-35 and will take place at Ealing Trailfinders Sports Club on Sunday, 26th July. Full details are on CRY’s booking page.
Please note that all available appointments are frequently booked up within an hour of opening.
If you have any questions, please contact CRY here. Neither we nor Ealing Trailfinders Sports Club can help with queries.
You may have already read about CRY’s latest research analysing what happened to more than 100,000 young people screened between 2008 and 2018.
As summed up by CRY: “One in 300 young people screened and evaluated by CRY’s cardiac experts were identified with heart conditions that could have fatal consequences, if left unmonitored and untreated.
“More than 40% (41%) of those diagnosed went on to receive significant ‘risk-reducing’ interventions including implantable defibrillators, pacemakers, cardiac ablation surgery, and, in 2 cases, heart transplantation.”
This ‘major research paper” has been welcomed in an Early Day Motion tabled in Parliament, which is great news. Paul’s MP, Jess Brown-Fuller, is one of the sponsors. Among other points, the motion “raises the importance of this report given the statistics that 12 young people die each week due to an undiagnosed heart condition.”
Hopefully, it will raise awareness among other MPs.
Meanwhile, the UK’s National Screening Committee (NSC) is reviewing the evidence for heart screening for young people and is due to open a public consultation in the Spring.
It seems about time, given you can read the following on the Sudden Cardiac Death page of the NSC website: “Next review estimated to be completed: 2023 to 2024.” Since 2023, 1,800 more young people will have died of undiagnosed heart conditions.
The NSC now has the new report to consider, although it’s striking that CRY’s figure of one in 300 young people screened being found to have a significant heart condition has been known since at least 2012. The NSC chose to ignore this in its reviews of 2015 and 2019.
But to end on a positive note. Our next free heart screenings for young people aged between 14-35 will be held in Ealing in July. Keep an eye out for details nearer the time.
As ever, we are grateful to all of you who have supported us with donations. It’s your money that keeps the screenings going. We know from experience that screening saves lives.
Meanwhile, if you haven’t signed the Ayling family petition yet, calling for a national screening programme, you can do so here.
Ellen Clabburn, right, with some of the CRY team at the 2025 Ealing screenings.
Ninety-seven young people were tested by CRY at Trailfinders Sports Club in Ealing on Sunday, 2 February.
The free event takes the total number of young people aged 14-35 tested by Tom and Claire’s Fund to more than 3,300 since our first screening in 2009. That’s only possible because of the generosity of those who have supported us and donated over so many years. Thank you.
We are very grateful to the CRY team, who were as lovely and professional as ever, and to the staff of Trailfinders, who once again made us feel so welcome.
A film crew also attended the screenings and it seems CRY might appear on BBC Breakfast this week in a feature about Heart Month 2025. One to set the record button for.
Our free CRY heart screenings for young people aged between 14 and 35 will be held at Trailfinders Sports Club in Ealing on Sunday, 2nd February, 2025.
Booking is now open on CRY’s site here. Please note that in recent years the event, sponsored by Tom and Claire’s Fund, has been fully booked within 24 hours.
We are very grateful to Trailfinders for once more hosting the screenings.
If you have any queries, please contact CRY here rather than us or Trailfinders.
Some of CRY’s screening team at Trailfinders Sports Club.
One hundred young people aged between 14-35 had their hearts screened for free by Cardiac Risk in the Young in Ealing on Sunday, 4th February. Seven people were referred for further tests.
The event, hosted for the third year in a row by Trailfinders Sports Club in Vallis Way, was sponsored by Tom and Claire’s Fund.
“We’re very grateful to all those who have donated and enabled the screenings to take place,” said Paul Clabburn. “As ever, we are also indebted to Trailfinders for their support and to the CRY team who do such an amazing job.”
Further screenings in Ealing are planned for 2025.
