By Aimee Foster | Fundraising & Communications, Tiny Tickers
Happy World Heart Day!
Every year, on the 29th September, we celebrate World Heart Day. It's a global movement to raise awareness of heart disease and, for Tiny Tickers, an opportunity to spread awareness of congenital heart disease (CHD).
We also see World Heart Day as a benchmark, to reflect on what we have achieved over the past year.
Since last World Heart Day we have:
Trained 532 sonographers, giving them the skills and confidence to detect heart defects during pregnancy scans (we've trained 2142 sonographers in total since 2016). Placed 163 life-saving pulse oximetry machines, which can detect heart defects in newborn babies, in maternity units across the UK. This brings the total amount of machines we've placed since 2017 to 408. Hosted 10 virtual support groups and 13 drop-in sessions, helping 59 heart parents needing support during their journey - from their baby's CHD diagnosis, to open heart surgery and beyond. Reached 146,456 new people with our Think HEART message - the five key signs that a baby may have an undiagnosed heart condition.
We couldn't do any of this without your support.
Thank you for helping us keep tiny hearts beating.
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