Over 200 Cardiac Scans in Memory of Max

For two days this week, a team of healthcare professionals from C-R-Y (Cardiac Risk in the Young), have been at TBSHS and have undertaken 200 scans over two days, of TBSHS Sixth Formers, looking for any abnormalities in the heart function.

The session was arranged by the Oliver family in memory of Max Oliver, a TBSHS Old Boy and popular rugby player at Bishop’s Stortford Rugby Club,  who tragically died aged 31, of a cardiac arrest whilst travelling to work last September.

Every week in the UK at least 12 young people die of undiagnosed heart conditions, Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY) has been working to reduce the frequency of young sudden cardiac death by promoting and developing heart screening programmes and funding medical research.

Max’s younger brother Teddy, who also attended TBSHS and worked in the PE department for a Gap Year before going to Loughborough university and now lives in Derbyshire, accompanied his mother to the new school site at TBSHS, to see the team in action

Lizzie Oliver, Max’s mother, said, “Max was very happy at this school (TBSHS) as was Teddy, and we wanted to  do something to help, and hopefully prevent other families from going through what we have had to go through.”

George Munro, Assistant Headteacher and Head of Sixth Form said “We are unbelievably grateful to the Oliver family for funding the screenings for nearly 200 students. Max and Teddy were great students and alumni members of the TBSHS community and to do this in memory of Max is an excellent way to honour his memory.”

Photo Above: `Lizzie & Teddy Oliver with the C-R-Y Medical Staff and Mr Munro.’