Health charity’s founding CEO retires after three decades

Alison Cox, the founder and chief executive of Cardiac Risk in the Young (CRY), is to retire 28 years after the charity was formed.

The charity screens the hearts of young people to prevent them dying from undiagnosed cardiac conditions. Since it formed it has screened more than 270,000 young people.

“On behalf of CRY’s trustees, staff and families, I would like to thank Alison for everything that she has done. Quite simply, CRY would not exist without her,” said the charity’s chair Hugh Mulcahey.



Cox said that “the charity has changed so much since it started in a back room in my house”.

“Whilst cardiac screening is not yet routine throughout the NHS, it is very much within the mindset of many people,” she added.

“Screening is now routine for most elite athletes, as well as some professions, and tens of thousands of young people are going through the CRY screening programme every year, which is quite incredible.”

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