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Tick_stroke Heartsafe Communities report launched today

Resuscitation Council UK, British Heart Foundation, Oliver Cookson Foundation and St John Ambulance have published the Heartsafe Communities report today.  

The Heartsafe Communities scheme was set up in May 2023 and the aim was to improve access to defibrillators and CPR training and ultimately save more lives from cardiac arrest. 

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Tick_stroke RCUK seeks ALS instructors to support European Society of Cardiology Congress

Resuscitation Council UK is organising a group of London-based Advanced Life Support (ALS) instructor volunteers who would be prepared to teach ALS and Basic Life Support (BLS) scenario workshops during the conference.

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Tick_stroke Survivors Quality Standard: call for feedback

We are asking for your views on our draft document 'Survivors Quality Standard: meeting the care and rehabilitation needs of cardiac arrest survivors and their key supporters'.

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Tick_stroke King’s College London seeks participants for a research study on young cardiac arrest responders

Researchers at King's College London are looking to talk to a range of young people who were 11-18 years old when they tried to help someone having a cardiac arrest by pressing down on their chest or using a heart restarter machine (defibrillator).

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