Are you ready for Restart a Heart day – Wednesday 16 October 2019? South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SWASFT) will be running events right across the South West in order to train as many people as possible in the life-saving technique. Our Community First Responders and Ambulance teams will be out and about teaching skills in schools across October too. Please help us to publicise and get as many lives saved as possible.
Find a venue across the South West which is local to you and come get in some life-saving practice on 16 October 2019 with trained Community...
Our Parent's First Aid course is for parents, grandparents, carers of children and babies, anyone that wants to learn a basic understanding of how to administer first aid to children and babies. We can also provide the usual group booking in house at a location of your choice. Just some of the areas we will cover are:
* Basic Life Support * Choking * Meningitis * Childhood Diseases
The course cost is £55 per delegate.
We have 15 spaces on the course in total, 7 of which we are giving away for free! Just like and share our page and comment about why you should win a...
The chance of surviving a cardiac arrest has been boosted, thanks to the staff at Bigwave Media in Exeter and the British Heart Foundation (BHF). The creative agency decided to join the BHF’s force of Nation of Lifesavers by training ten of their staff in Exeter, to learn life-saving CPR (Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation) skills. The staff were trained by Hilary Sanders, who is the coordinator and a trainer for a BHF Heartstart Community Group based in Kentisbeare near Cullompton. She volunteered to provide the training, including a practice defibrillator to help the staff become confident...
The British Heart Foundation (BHF) and the Department of Health (DH) are encouraging organisations in the South West to help make their communities safer as they launch a £1 million partnership to make public access defibrillators and CPR training more widely available across England.
The announcement comes as new figures from the BHF show few people in the South West are even aware they can use a public access defibrillator in an emergency (47%), and only three in ten (31%) say they would have the confidence to do so. The charity warns this lack of awareness and availability could...
The fast actions of Exeter Golf and Country Club staff saved the life of one of their club members, when he suffered a major heart attack.
Mike Ritchie, 61, became unconscious whilst gripped by a severe heart attack as he sat in the jacuzzi at the club. A fellow member, Janice Voce, raised the alarm with 17 year old lifeguard Elliot Chandler, when she noticed Mr Ritchie slumped in the water. Elliot who has been a lifeguard for less than a year reacted immediately and with his fellow Lifeguard, Luke, pulled Mr Ritchie out of the water while pressing the alarm to summon other members...
People in the South West believe children should be taught CPR in schools, according to new research by the British Heart Foundation (BHF).
The BHF polled over 2,000 people and found that 89% of people in the South West thought that children should leave secondary school knowing the life-saving skill.
More than 30,000 people have a cardiac arrest outside of hospital, but less than one-in-ten survive - partly because people don’t have the skills or confidence to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).
Survival rates in the UK are much lower than other countries...
