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Posted by on Nov 15, 2015 in 2015, Awareness, CRY screenings, Dr Rupa Huq MP

MP visits Tom and Claire’s @CRY_UK screenings #Ealing #Acton #London

 

CRY screenings, Rupa Huq MP, Novemer 2015

Dr Huq (second right) with CRY team members (L-R) Gareth Jones, Jodie Egerton, Janice Long and Dr Harshil Dhutia.

 

Ealing Central and Acton MP Dr Rupa Huq visited Tom and Claire’s Fund’s free CRY heart screenings at the Florence Road Health Centre, Ealing, on Sunday, November 15.

Nearly 100 young people aged 14-35 attended the fully booked event.

Dr Huq said: “It was a really eye-opening experience to see for myself how a CRY screening works and impressive that such a diverse range of people from different cultural backgrounds were waiting to be tested. The message is getting out about the importance of screening and I would urge everybody in the age range to take the opportunity to be tested.

“It’s brilliant to have a CRY team working in Ealing and I can’t thank them enough.”

She added: “I’d also like to praise all those people who have supported Tom and Claire’s Fund over the years. Without their efforts, raising awareness and funds, these free screenings couldn’t take place. It was a pleasure to meet some of the fund’s supporters on the day.”

Paul Clabburn said: “Ellen and I are very grateful to Dr Huq for spending so much time at the screening and also for joining CRY’s All Party Parliamentary Group. We are also, of course, indebted to the CRY team for the highly professional but hugely welcoming way in which they go about their work and to Dr Evans and the team at the Florence Road health centre who have yet again hosted the event.”

Tom and Claire’s Fund has sponsored more than 1,200 free heart screenings since 2009. It will sponsor further screenings in 2016.

If you wish to be screened in the meantime, please click here.

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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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