Learn CPR and save lives with Restart a Heart Day 2024

Today (16th October) is Restart a Heart Day 2024, which aims to raise awareness about sudden cardiac arrest and encourage people to learn life-saving CPR. Taking place on and around 16th October every year, Restart a Heart Day is led by an alliance of national and international partners, such as the British Heart Foundation,...

Resuscitation Council tackles inequalities in CPR training and access

The Resuscitation Council UK (RCUK) is campaigning to end inequalities in resuscitation across the UK, including disparities in CPR training and access to life-saving defibrillators. The RCUK recently published a report, Every Second Counts: Tackling inequalities in resuscitation, which examines inequalities in resuscitation which affect an individual’s chances of surviving a cardiac arrest, and...

Defibrillator access ‘unequal’, experts warn

Access to a potentially life-saving defibrillator is unequal across England and Scotland, a recent study has shown. Heart experts are calling for people across the country to be afforded equal and quick access to a life-saving automated external defibrillator (AED) machine 24 hours a day. It comes as a study in Heart Journal reveals...

Oliver King’s family renew call for compulsory defibrillators

The family of a young boy who lost his life following a cardiac arrest have renewed their calls for defibrillators to be made compulsory in schools and workplaces after footballer Eriksen’s recent collapse on the pitch. Oliver King was just 12 years old when he suffered a cardiac arrest during a school swimming lesson...