ReSPECT (Recommended Summary Plan for Emergency Care and Treatment) supports meaningful, person-centred conversations about future emergency care. Ensuring that people’s priorities, values and goals of care are understood and respected is essential when they may not be able to express what is important to them in an emergency. 

Resuscitation Council UK (RCUK) welcomes the publication of the COVID‑19 Inquiry’s Module 3 report and its focus on improving planning and decision‑making around cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and emergency care planning. RCUK presented recommendations to the inquiry in October 2024.

Saturday 17 May 2025 started like any other Parkrun day for Will. He was up early, made a cup of tea, and went through his usual pre-run routine - a quick mental check that his body felt ready for the jog ahead. But as he crossed the finish line, he became light-headed. Moments later, Will collapsed.

Resuscitation Council UK and Bauer Media Group announces a new partnership to help save lives by raising awareness of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), tackling inequalities in cardiac arrest survival, and expanding access to defibrillators nationwide.

Resuscitation Council UK has launched a free, national e-learning course to help healthcare professionals confidently use the Recommended Summary Plan for Emergency Care and Treatment (ReSPECT).

Resuscitation Council UK (RCUK) is pleased to announce the launch of the Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium UK (ROC-UK). A new national initiative designed to strengthen research collaboration, accelerate innovation, and improve survival and recovery for people who experience a cardiac arrest.

In April 2022, Richard Moore was taking on the Blackpool Marathon for the second time, determined to beat his previous best and finish in under four hours. For most of the race, everything was going exactly to plan. But just 400 metres from the finish line, he experienced a cardiac arrest and collapsed.

You never expect your world to change in a single moment - but at 02:30 on the morning of Sunday 27 July, theirs did. Bernie woke to find her baby gasping for air. She shook her partner awake in panic, telling him that “Leo wasn’t breathing properly”, and within seconds he turned blue and stopped breathing in their arms. 

Resuscitation Council UK in partnership with Save a Life Cymru, has published a new discharge resource to support people recovering from cardiac arrest, along with their families and friends.

Professor Gavin Perkins MBE, President of the Resuscitation Council UK (RCUK), has been honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the annual meeting of the American Heart Association (AHA).