Tiny Tickers

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In 2019, we chose Tiny Tickers as one of our supported charities. The UK-based charity is run by a fetal cardiologist who founded Tiny Tickers in 1999 and a father of a child who had to receive open heart surgery for a major defect soon after birth.
They work hard to support research and above all education for teams in hospitals to be able to detect heart disease in newborn babies earlier, when possible even during the pregnancy, so the new baby can receive all the early support and treatment that is needed from the moment he or she is born. This way, lives are saved and the children have a future as bright as possible to look forward to.
We have helped them towards achievement of their target to raise enough money over a few years to distribute 330 pulse oximetry machines to maternity units across the UK. On average, every machine is used to test around 1,500 newborn babies per year for the signs of undiagnosed congenital heart disease. Put simply, the machines can save lives by alert hospital staff to a potential problem before a baby with critical congenital heart disease falls into heart failure. ​