Heart Diseases: Medical Treatments
Commons · Question 38578 · Tabled 17 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care · Official record
Answered 25 Mar 2025
Question
Asked by Jim Shannon
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to help increase public preparedness for out-of-hospital sudden cardiac arrest.
Answer
Answered by Ashley Dalton, 25 Mar 2025
To improve patients' survival rates following out-of-hospital cardiac arrests, the Government has committed to improving access to automated external defibrillators (AEDs) in public spaces, and to reducing inequalities in access to these life saving devic...