Frost family raises £1.5m for heart tests

♦ Thousands more patients at risk of deadly inherited heart conditions will be genetically screened each year after a campaign by the family of Sir David Frost.

The Miles Frost Fund was created in memory of the broadcaster’s eldest son, who died of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM), a hidden heart condition, in 2015, aged 31.

The fund, which makes genetic testing for the condition more easily available, announced that it had hit its £1.5million fundraising target just two years after it launched.

The British Heart Foundation estimates that up to 120,000 people across the UK could be living with HCM, while 600,000 could be carrying a similar faulty gene that puts them at high risk of having a cardiac arrest or heart attack.

Sir David died from a heart attack at the age of 74 in 2013.