Save a Life September – St John Ambulance Campaign
What is Save a Life September?
On Sunday 22nd September from 10 AM, St John volunteers will engage members of the public in Windsor Royal Shopping Centre through demonstrations & education sessions. The sessions will include first aid for choking, severe bleeding or cardiac arrest and will be open to the local community and visitors.
Why Save a Life?
➤ Many people do not feel confident in their ability to perform CPR, either because they lack training or because they have not practised these vital skills recently
➤ Over a third (38%) of UK adults have never undertaken any form of training to learn essential CPR skills. Access to CPR training is not consistent across all segments of the population. This issue is most pronounced in cardiac arrest hotspots. In fact, levels of training are significantly lower for people from ethnic minority backgrounds compared to the UK population. Just 22% received training in the last 10 years, compared with 41% of the UK population in the same period
➤ More than 30,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests happen every year in the UK. Sadly, less than one in 10 people survive. When CPR and a defibrillator are used within the first three minutes of a cardiac arrest, survival rates can increase by up to 70%
➤ The current out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survival rate in England is just 7.8%.
Figures from the Tackling Inequalities in Resuscitation report published by Resuscitation Council UK Spring 2024
