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Case study: Peter - "I’m incredibly grateful to every person who played a part in saving my life."
Peter Blount was feeling perfectly well when he and his wife ran through the rain from a car park to a cinema in Melton Mowbray one evening in January 2025. After climbing 14 stairs, he experienced a sudden cardiac arrest and collapsed.
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RCUK's Resus Annie on Tour visiting six UK cities to highlight inequalities in CPR training
Resuscitation Council UK will bring Restart a Heart 2026 to communities across the UK through Resus Annie on Tour, a travelling CPR training manikin visiting six cities to help tackle inequalities in cardiac arrest survival. The tour starts in Leicester on 5 October and finishes in Belfast on 27 October, with stops in Glasgow, London, Manchester and Cardiff along the way.
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Consensus statement: Universal mandate for defibrillators in vehicles
Proposals have been raised to make automated external defibrillators (AEDs) mandatory standard equipment in all new vehicles, but the unified consensus among leading UK health and resuscitation organisations does not support this.
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Case Study: Lucy - "I gave my son CPR and tried my hardest to save his life"
One night, Lucy Robin woke up unexpectedly. When she looked at her son, she immediately realised something was wrong. He was blue, his hands were cold and his lips had changed colour. He wasn't breathing.
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