Jason Carlyon from YAS said starting CPR someone retrieved the nearest defibrillator, tripled a person’s chances of survival More than 35,000 school children are to be taught life-saving skills in a ...

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Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth is one of a number of hospitals giving lifesaving CPR lessons as part of Restart a Heart Day. It's aimed at teaching members of the public how to help restart ...

teaching CPR to the public could save up to 100,000 lives across Europe every year, a conference on emergency heart resuscitation has heard. CPR expert Mary Hannon told delegates at the event at ...

Teaching CPR in schools may boost the odds of survival for people suffering cardiac arrests outside of hospitals, a charity said Calls for emergency resuscitation skills to be made compulsory in the ...

SHOPPERS were given a lesson in CPR by ambulance workers. The North East Ambulance Service (NEAS), along with the British Heart Foundation were at the Metrocentre in Gateshead at the weekend to raise ...

Compulsory CPR lessons in secondary schools "could save 5,000 lives" every year, according to health campaigners. The British Heart Foundation (BHF) said 22,000 people die every year because they have ...

A teenage boy who'd gone into cardiac arrest was brought back to life by his friends, who were able to perform CPR thanks to a First Aid class they'd remembered from school. Joel Massey, 14, had a ...

An army of NHS volunteers will be teaching CPR after medics used the procedure to save footballer Christian Eriksen’s life during a Euro 2020 match last weekend. It comes after St John Ambulance said ...

More than 35,000 school children are to be taught life-saving skills in a single day as part of a campaign by the Yorkshire Ambulance Service (YAS). Off-duty health professionals will visit 172 ...