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...

First Response Training extends helping hand to Community Action Ledbury

A vital local charity is set to receive complimentary first aid training from a leading national training provider. Community Action Ledbury is a local charity dedicated to enhancing the lives of individuals in the local area, including elderly and disabled people. Their minibuses are used to transport elderly people, wheelchair-bound people and school children,...

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...