Heart Diseases: Young People
(asked on 20th March 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
What steps his Department is taking to reduce the number of deaths of young people from cardiac arrest.
This question was answered on 20th March 2018
The Government has provided £2 million to make Public Access Defibrillators more widely available and to increase the number of people trained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
In addition, the Fetal Anomaly and the Newborn and Infant Physical Examination screening programmes offer heart screening to detect abnormalities early.
The Department’s National Institute for Health Research welcomes funding applications for research in this area.