CRY in Parliament All Party Parliamentary action on SADS
North Durham MP, Kevan Jones met with Parliamentary colleagues on Monday 8th July to launch an All Party Parliamentary Group on Cardiac Risk in the Young at Portcullis House, Westminster.
Mr Jones has been working with the organisation CRY – Cardiac Risk in the Young – over the last few months, to bring together interested parties in Westminster and form the group. The All Party Group will work closely with CRY to examine the issues surrounding cardiac risk in young people and at Mondays launch Ian Botham OBE, President of the CRY Centre for Sports Cardiology was guest speaker.
“At the end of the day these deaths are indiscriminate. They affect all sorts of people – amateur sportsmen, professional sportsmen, a guy playing on a pitch, a kid at a school sports day. It is something that must be addressed and has been swept under the carpet for too long.”
Ian Botham
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an Botham OBE met with North Durham MP, Kevan Jones and parliamentary colleagues on Monday 8th July to launch an All Party Parliamentary Group on Cardiac Risk in the Young at Portcullis House, Westminster.
Kevan Jones was alerted to CRY by his constituents Jeff and Sandra Moreland.
