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Tick_stroke Resuscitation Council UK launches guidelines to help increase cardiac arrest survival rates amongst athletes

Resuscitation Council UK (RCUK) has launched new guidelines to help save lives across all community and professional sporting events.  

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Tick_stroke Make defibs accessible 24/7 to help increase survival rates across the UK, say national resus experts

Restart A Heart 2023 is focusing on equal access to defibrillators. RCUK and partners, are urging everyone looking after one – such as those in charge of pubs, sports clubs, community centres, churches and village halls – to make it accessible to the public 24/7, to give a person suffering a cardiac arrest the best chance of survival.

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Tick_stroke Resuscitation Council UK launches a free baby and child CPR book which will help save children’s lives 

Resuscitation Council UK launches a free baby and child CPR book which will help save children’s lives 

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Tick_stroke RCUK raise awareness of the urgent need for a rehabilitation plan for survivors of cardiac arrest at Westminster event

On Monday 19 June, Resuscitation Council UK (RCUK) hosted a parliamentary event to raise awareness of the urgent need to have a recovery plan to ensure people who have a cardiac arrest get the follow up care they urgently need.

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