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Resuscitation Council UK has updated and rebranded its guide to automated external defibrillators as Public Access Defibrillators: A Guide for Communities, covering installation, maintenance and…
Resuscitation Council UK has published version one of Public access defibrillators: A guide for communities, setting out how community defibrillators should be registered, installed, signposted and…
The Met Office has launched its July to December 2025 training prospectus for community responders and the voluntary sector, with three courses on climate change, winter weather hazards and Met Office…
St John Ambulance has launched a summer first aid campaign after a survey found 55% of adults in England cannot tell heat stroke from heat exhaustion.
South Central Ambulance Service and the Isle of Wight Ambulance Service have launched the first phase of the GoodSAM responder app, alerting verified volunteers to cardiac arrests within 500 metres of…
London Ambulance Service analysis has found dozens of neighbourhoods with little or no access to a defibrillator, and the service says public devices should not be kept in locked cabinets.
The Environment Agency updated its community flood plan guidance on GOV.UK on 15 November 2023, setting out what community plans should cover before, during and after a flood in England.
The British Heart Foundation has opened applications for 220 free defibrillator packages for UK communities, funded with support from Royal Mail and aimed at areas with high deprivation and limited…
A new Volunteering Wales platform, due to launch in March 2023, will let volunteers join a bank of emergency volunteers and let organisations register their emergency response capability.
Ambulance services and charities are urging defibrillator guardians to register their devices on the national database The Circuit, aiming to pass 50,000 mapped devices and reach around 70,000 by the…