All Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire secondary schools to teach kids CPR
It's part of new government plans to improve health, sex and relationships education
It's hoped more people than ever will survive cardiac arrests in Yorkshire and Northern Lincolnshire, after CPR is added to the school curriculum.
The government have announced every schoolkid will be taught life saving skills by the time they've left secondary school under new proposals.
It's part of The Department for Education's plans to strengthen health, sex and relationships education - and will include how to use a defibrillator, CPR, and basic treatment of common injuries.
Yorkshire Ambulance Service go into schools across our region every year to teach them - Jason Carlyon from the service is welcoming the move:
"This is overdue recognition of the fact that it's a life skill that children need to have. Early bystander CPR should double the chance of survival so we should hopefully see in the coming years more people surviving.
"Every year there are approximately 30,000 out of hospital cardiac arrests. Every minute that goes by without CPR the chance of survival drops by 10%.
"It's absolutely vital. We talk about a chain of survival in cardiac arrests. The first two elements are bystander CPR and early defibrillation and any member of the public can perform these. And it's key that people don't fear making the sitation worse - they can't."
Survival rates are more than double in countries where CPR is already taught than they are in the UK.
The British Heart Foundation have called the plans a "decisive moment" in improving the rates here.
Julia's a teacher in Yorkshire - she thinks it's a great idea:
"There's only a few children at school who know how to do that sort of thing so I think it would be really useful, particularly on trips as well, if more than a handful of people knew how to use it.
"More and more children seem to come through who have got different educational needs or phycial needs so if more children were aware of that I think that'd have a positive effect."
The plans are due to be rolled out by 2020.