Restart A Heart
This October, The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Centre in Rugby, supports Restart a Heart, a nationwide initiative to improve survival rates from out-of-hospital cardiac arrests.
Each year, approximately 30,000 people suffer an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest – that’s around 84 individuals every day. But survival rates are low, with just one in ten people recovering*.
The Resuscitation Council UK (RCUK) and an alliance of first aid organisations, including Royal Life Saving Society UK (RLSS UK), UK Ambulance Services, universities, and other charitable and public sector community-based organisations and first aid training organisations, lead the campaign.
The Queen's Diamond Jubilee Centre will support the campaign by hosting activities at our venue and on our social media channels that teach basic life saving techniques of CPR and defibrillator use. We’re utilising resources designed and distributed by RLSS UK to ensure people have the skills and confidence to perform CPR.
We are hosting a drop in session on Thursday 16th October 13:00-14:30 in the sports hall. No booking required. During this session our Qualified RLSS Pool Trainer Assessors will teach public the basiscs of how to deliver CPR and how use a defibrillator (AED).
Nick Grazier, RLSS UK, said: “We have been supporting the Restart a Heart campaign for a number of years, but we have been actively encouraging leisure operators to get more involved this year, as there are still concerningly high numbers of individuals who have never learnt CPR and it is a really important skill to know in any situation."
Restart a Heart (RSAH) is an annual initiative led by Resuscitation Council UK which aims to increase the number of people surviving out-of hospital cardiac arrests. It is run in partnership with The British Heart Foundation, British Red Cross, St John Ambulance, Royal Life Saving Society UK (RLSS UK), the Association of Ambulance Chief Executives, NHS England, Save a Life for Scotland, St Andrew’s First Aid, Save a Life Cymru, Northern Ireland Ambulance Service, and Amputation Foundation. In 2018, the initiative went global with the formation of World Restart a Heart (WRSAH).
Every October, an alliance of partners all over the world (including UK Ambulance Services, universities, and other charitable and public sector community-based organisations and first aid training organisations) come together to increase public awareness of cardiac arrests and increase the number of people trained in life saving CPR and defibrillation awareness. They do this by organising and facilitating training events and by providing opportunities for people to learn CPR digitally in the safety and comfort of their own home.
Learn CPR, act fast, save lives
Crisis
Survival rates from sudden cardiac arrests remain stubbornly low in the UK, with only 1 in 10 people surviving. Even though CPR has been added to curriculums, millions of people in the UK won’t have had an opportunity to learn this key lifesaving skill – putting lives at risk across the UK.
Opportunity
RSAH can save lives, both now and in the future, by providing training and awareness opportunities and resources to teach people how to react when someone collapses and stops breathing normally.
The aim of the campaign
To increase cardiac arrest survival rates across the UK, we will encourage everyone to learn the steps to CPR and how to use a defib. No matter your physical abilities, you have the power to make a difference in an emergency. Early CPR can double the chances of survival and people with limb differences can play vital roles in saving lives by helping coordinate CPR, calling for help.
For more about the Restart a Heart campaign, visit www.rlss.org.uk/ or to learn more about how to deliver CPR, visit www.rlss.org.uk/learn-cpr