Defibrillators and First Aid: Training
(asked on 26th May 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department is taking steps to encourage members of the public to undertake CPR and first aid training.
This question was answered on 13th June 2022
NHS England and NHS Improvement and St John Ambulance are co-ordinating skills development to increase the use of automated external defibrillators by individuals in the community, supported by confident cardiopulmonary resuscitation skills. This will include a national network of community advocates to champion the importance of first aid and training for 60,000 people to help save up to 4,000 lives each year by 2028.