Defibrillators

(asked on 25th January 2022) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he plans to take to encourage the installation of more defibrillators in public places.


Answered by
Maria Caulfield Portrait
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
This question was answered on 28th January 2022

The National Health Service has initiated a national network of community first responders and automated external defibrillators (AEDs). This will be supported by educating the general public, including young people of school age, on recognising and responding to out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.

The Government encourages organisations in England to consider purchasing a defibrillator as part of their first aid equipment, particularly for places where there are high concentrations of people. With growing public awareness and acceptance of AEDs, many community defibrillators have since been provided in public locations through national lottery funding, community fundraising schemes, workplace funding or by charities. From May 2020, the Government has required all contractors refurbishing or building new schools through centrally delivered programmes to provide at least one AED. The NHS cardiovascular disease programme has committed £15 million in 2021/22 for national projects to improve bystander responses to out of hospital cardiac arrests.

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