Caroline Smart (aged 18) was a friend of Laura Moss at Millfield and bought CRY to the attention of Dr Sharpe, after which an interest grew which led to Dr Sharpe instigatigating the first school screening for Cardiac Abnormalities in this country. 124 students took up the offer of an ECG which was held at the
Pictured are Patrick Allen Principal Foyle College; Councillor Martin Reilly, Mayor of Derry; Tony Hill, CRY Screening manager; John Lundy & Mark Durkin, MP
This was the third annual screening event that the Patterson family have held at The Campion School in Hornchurch and once again it was a great success. 100 screenings were carried out on the pupils of James’s old school.The whole day went very well. There were a few abnormalities picked up which will have to be
Bromley News Shopper – 21st November 2012 The memory of a Bickley schoolboy inspired more than 100 pupils to get screened for heart conditions. Aspiring sportsman Ben Daniels, 15, collapsed following a cardiac arrest while training with the Ex Blues football team in March last year. He died in hospital three days later. His parents, Paul
More than 70 young people had their hearts screened for free in Ealing on Sunday. The fully booked sessions were funded by the Tom Clabburn Memorial Fund and run by the charity Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY), who provided the medical expertise. Ealing schoolboy Tom Clabburn died aged 14 in 2007 from an undiagnosed heart
On the 30th June 2012, the Daniels family from Bickley, near Chislehurst, hosted a free cardiac screening session for teenagers from local sports clubs, in memory of their son, Ben, who died suddenly from an undiagnosed heart condition last year. He was aged just 15. Ben collapsed without warning whilst playing football with his Ex Blues FC
6th November 2011 Around 80 young people were given free heart screenings on Sunday as part of an event held in memory of Ealing schoolboy Tom Clabburn, who died aged 14 in 2007 from an undiagnosed heart condition. The screenings, for people aged 14-35, were fully booked. They were held at the Florence Road surgery in
The parents of a healthy 23-year-old man who died suddenly after contracting a flu-type virus said they were delighted to see youngsters queueing for heart defect screening at a special session in a church. Julie Collins, aged 52, organised the session through charity CRY (Cardiac Risk in the Young) after spending years raising money, along with
A nationwide campaign – the brainchild of the charity Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY) – toured England for the second year running in autumn 2010, aiming to reduce the number of sudden deaths from undiagnosed heart conditions in apparently fit and healthy young people. The CRY Test My Heart Tour 2010 stopped in Oxford from
In honour of Nathan’s 21st birthday we recently held a screening weekend 27th & 28th March and a charity disco on 1st April, which was his actual birthday. The screening weekend got off to a bit of a rocky start on the Friday evening when Tony and the crew broke down on the M6 toll and