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<p>To improve survival rates for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest cases, the National Health Service Long Term Plan sets out that a national network of community first responders and automated external defibrillators will help save up to 4,000 lives each year by 2028.</p><p>Working with St John Ambulance, 141 community advocates have been recruited to deliver sessions in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and defibrillator use. As of December 2022, 163 sessions had been delivered and 3,249 people had been reached by these advocates.</p><p>The NHS has also been working in partnership with the British Heart Foundation, the Resuscitation Council UK, and the Association of Ambulance Chief Executives to set up The Circuit, which is a national defibrillator network that enables the ambulance services to identify the nearest defibrillator at the time of an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and increase the rate of bystander defibrillation.</p> |