Funded by SADS UK, Heartwize Essex were pleased to deliver CPR and Defibrillator training to Year 10 pupils at Westcliff High School for boys
SADS UK launched an exciting new initiative Heartwize Essex at the Anglia Ruskin University. The free CPR training programme is aimed at Year 10 pupils teaching essential lifesaving skills to ensure that every school leaver across Essex is trained to recognise and respond appropriately to a cardiac arrest emergency in a bid to increase survival rates from out of hospital cardiac arrest.
Up to 60,000 cardiac arrests occur outside of hospitals in the UK every year, and the current survival rate in the UK is only 8%. Evidence from across the globe demonstrates that teaching school students basic life support skills can have a dramatic effect on cardiac arrest survival rates.(Seattle and some Nordic cities have survival rates >25%)
Evidence from around the globe repeatedly shows us the power of teaching school children basic life support skills. By training an army of young life savers, SADS UK aims to equip people with the knowledge and confidence to act in an emergency, and ultimately to help save lives.
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SADS UK Statement : 24th January 2023
SADS UK campaigning 10 years ago lobbying Government for defibrillators in schools which reached and was supported by millions of people. Anne Jolly MBE spoke with policymakers and subsequently the Department for Education advised schools that they should consider having a defibrillator as part of their First Aid equipment.
SADS UK Supports Members in donating 2 Defibrillators to Help Save Lives
SADS UK were pleased to support members Angela and David Hosking in donating two new defibrillators to Ashfield Community First Responders Team in memory of their beloved daughter Joanne to help save lives.
SADS UK Safe Schools Campaign
SADS UK Safe Schools Campaign – collaborating with the SADS Foundation SADS UK promotes the SADS Safe Schools Campaign which focuses on parents with children living with cardiac conditions and supporting them as they return to school.
Statement from SADS UK - Government Announcement that State-Funded Schools across England will receive Defibrillators
SADS UK welcomes the Government’s announcement that all state funded secondary schools who do not already have a defibrillator on site will be provided with a defibrillator by July 2023. After the charity’s many years of campaigning and liaising with Government and the Dept for Education there will now be at least one lifesaving device in every school should a person suffer a cardiac arrest.
SADS UK Supports Restart A Heart Day
SADS UK are proud to have been involved in an excellent CPR & Defibrillator Training event at Hamptons Sport & Leisure Centre on Saturday 16th October 2021 to mark Restart a Heart Day - an annual initiative led by Resuscitation Council UK which aims to increase the number of people surviving out-of hospital cardiac arrests.
Statement form Anne Jolly, MBE, Founder of SADS UK
Statement from Founder of SADS UK, Anne Jolly MBE. The national cardiac charity SADS UK, set up in honour of my son Ashley Jolly in 1998 has been working for over 10 years to bring in legislation to make defibrillators mandatory in schools; including bringing Early Day Motions and petitions to Parliament.
SADS UK partnership in a lifesaving programme to help improve survival rates after a cardiac arrest is being supported with almost £2.5m over the next three years by the Welsh Government.
Statement from Anne Jolly MBE, Founder of SADS UK - Christian Erikson Sudden Cardiac Arrest
STATEMENT FROM ANNE JOLLY (MBE) FOUNDER OF SADS UK FOLLOWING THE SUDDEN CARDIAC ARREST OF DANISH FOOTBALLER CHRISTIAN ERIKSON
Community Public Access Defibrillators
SADS UK is providing external heated cabinets at good prices to increase Community Public Access Defibrillation.
Clarification on Defibrillators
SADS UK is not responsible for any Community Public Access Defibrillator
Defibrillator Signposts
Studies show that the public are often not aware of where the nearest defibrillator is should a cardiac arrest occur.
All Schools should have defibrillators to restart the Heart
An Early Day Motion was tabled in Parliament in 2007 on behalf of SADS congratulating the charity with their lifesaving work and urging Government to bring forward a strategy to make defibrillators available on all school premises
SADS UK National Lifesaver Defibrillator Awards, Royal College of Nursing, Saturday October 18th 2014
The cardiac charity SADS UK hold the annual National Lifesaver Defibrillator Awards Dinner in London to honour people in the community who have used CPR and the defibrillator to save lives.
The location of all defibrillators should be registered on a National Database
The Government must fund a National Database giving the location of all new or replacement defibrillators installed.
Government should legislate to make defibrillators compulsory in all schools.
All schools should have sufficient defibrillators in prominent positions such that any person suffering a cardiac arrest can be reached within 3 minutes from the defibrillator location.
Guidance from the Dept. of Education includes issues for schools consideration
A defibrillator is a machine used to give an electric shock to restart a patient's heart when they are in cardiac arrest.
Success! - All New School To Have Defibrillators
In 2009 SADS UK provided statistics of 270 cardiac arrests in UK schools each year.
Schools must have defibrillators petition
SADS UK created a petition: UK Government: Bring forward a strategy to ensure that all schools have defibrillators, because the cardiac charity SADS UK cares deeply about saving young lives.
SADS UK Defibrillators in Schools Campaign reaches twenty five million people
The Cardiac charity SADS UK's Big Shock campaign alerted parents to how few schools have defibrillators(potentially lifesaving equipment) in place.
SADS UK Annual National Defibrillator Lifesavers Awards
SADS honour people in the community who have saved lives by the prompt use of basic life support skills and applying defibrillation.
Basic life support should be taught in Schools
SADS is backing the BHF Campaign and Resuscitation Council (UK) initiative urging Emergency Life Support Skills to be put on the Schools National Curriculum.
