CRY are looking to fund a new Centre for Inherited Cardiac Conditions and Sports Cardiology to expand our screening and research programme.
Under the direction of Professor Sanjay Sharma, the CRY Centre for Inherited Cardiac Conditions and Sports Cardiology at St George’s Hospital, London, is one of the leading centres in the world for inherited cardiac conditions and sports cardiology.
Originally, when the Centre was launched in 2010, CRY funded a team of four doctors. Due to the advancement of CRY’s screening and research programme, Professor Sharma now leads a specialist team, which has now expanded to include a cardiologist, 8 doctors, 2 nurses, 2 physiologists and an administrator, all funded by CRY, to support the largest NHS Referral Centre in the UK for families after a young sudden cardiac death. On average, around 2,000 people a year, from around the UK, are referred to CRY’s Centre after a diagnosis or a young sudden cardiac death in their family. This figure is growing year-on-year.
CRY needs to establish a new CRY Centre for Inherited Cardiac Conditions and Sports Cardiology and requires funding in the region of £760,000 to do this. A new centre will allow CRY to conduct more screening clinics and will also provide a base for CRY’s research team to work together, as well as an educational facility for students and educational conferences. These developments will further enhance our ability to achieve our goal of reducing the incidence of young sudden cardiac death, while aiming to make sure that all families that are affected by a young sudden cardiac death receive the help and support that they require. Another aim of creating this new centre is to reduce the waiting times for bereaved families who require expert screening after the young sudden cardiac death of a first degree relative, to identify any other family members who may be at risk.
The first wave of funding for the new centre will go towards machinery. This machinery will be used within the current CRY Centre at St George’s Hospital to support research and NHS clinics. The machinery will be used at this Centre until full funding of the project is achieved at which point it will be moved into the new premises.
We anticipate that the project will be sustainable from year 3 onwards. Once we have established the Centre, Professor Sharma’s team will be able to provide cardiac rehabilitation services, the contracts for which will generate the income needed to cover the overheads and rates. The hospital has agreed these contracts, in principle, and so we are confident of the sustainability of this project after the initial costs (outlined below) necessary to establish the new centre.
£376,000 – 2 years overhead/rates for the Centre
£184,000 – Conversion of the current Rob Lowe Centre, at St George’s Hospital, London.
£100,000 – Echocardiograph machine
£27,000 – Portable echocardiograph machine
£25,000 – Exercise test machine
£36,000 – ECG machine (x 6)
£12,650 – 24 hour holter monitor (x10)
Cost – £760,000
Timeline – Ongoing
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To help fund or to find out more information about this project or any other of our projects, please contact Hidayet@c-r-y.org.uk.
