Resuscitation Council UK will host their first-ever virtual Annual General Meeting on 3 December 2020.

As Jewish people consider how they will make a difference to their community this Mitzvah Day, Resuscitation Council UK is encouraging everyone to learn cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) skills, so they will know how to save the life of someone who is in cardiac arrest.

Resuscitation Council UK (RCUK) was delighted to have a dedicated session at this year’s virtual ERC Congress.  It was a great opportunity to share an update on some of our work with the UK and Europe’s resuscitation community. We hope you were able to join the session, but if you missed it, read all about our update here. 

University Hospitals Leicester successfully ran two Newborn Life Support (NLS) courses in August and September 2020, following adaptation to adhere to social distancing guidelines. Learn how they overcame COVID-19 challenges to deliver top quality training. 

Confusion around what to do during COVID-19 when someone’s in a cardiac arrest could cause delay in life-saving action, warn charities. 

Resuscitation Council UK welcomes the Department of Health and Social Care’s commissioning of the Care Quality Commission to review the use of DNACPR during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Resuscitation Officer Nicki Rennison spoke to RCUK about how the James Cook University Hospital is facilitating Newborn Life Support courses during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Following feedback from professionals, patients and their families, Resuscitation Council UK has improved the ReSPECT (Recommended Summary Plan for Emergency Care and Treatment) process which supports conversations about care in a future emergency. Version 3 of the ReSPECT form is even more patient-centred than previous versions and contains more prompts for explicit clinical reasoning.

We're encouraging the public to give people their best chance of survival by learning skills in CPR right now, citing recent studies that show how fewer people have performed bystander CPR during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Learning CPR gave Peter the skills and confidence to save a life. He's urging others to learn CPR right now, and be prepared to perform CPR in an emergency.