Defibrillators

EDM number 953 in 2013-14, proposed by David Crausby on 15/01/2014.
Categorised under the topics of Diseases, Health education and preventive medicine and Schools.

That this House believes that schools and workplaces in the UK should be equipped with defibrillators; notes that there are 60,000 out of hospital cardiac arrests in the UK every year and that every minute without cardiac pulmonary resuscitation and defibrillation reduces the chance of survival by 10 per cent; and calls on the Government to help save lives and provide defibrillators free of charge to every school in the UK and to bring forward legislative proposals to make it a requirement in the workplace.

This motion has been signed by a total of 57 MPs.