Campaign launched to help deprived communities with CPR training

A resuscitation expert from Oxfordshire says CPR is performed less often in deprived communities as they don't have the knowledge and training.

There are more than 100,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests every year in the UK.

Sudden cardiac arrest can strike anyone at any time and the Resuscitation Council UK have started the ResusReady campaign to tackle the inequality in CPR training. According to the council, CPR from a bystander can double the chance of survival from an out of hospital cardiac arrest.

Adam Benson-Clark from Resuscitation Council UK told us how quickly we can learn the life-saving procedure: "If your heart stops due to a sudden cardiac arrest, it's really important that we have the skills and knowledge to help give that person the best chance. It's an easy skill to learn it only takes two minutes. Giving up your time for those two minutes is all you need to save somebody else's life."

Businesses across the UK, who offer their staff CPR training, and CPR trained individuals, are being asked by the council to pledge to being ResusReady. By taking part in the free initiative, they can appear on an interactive heat map, allowing RCUK to find the gaps in CPR training and defibrillator awareness that still exist in the UK.

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