Nation Of Lifesavers Campaign

EDM number 387 in 2014-15, proposed by Alan Meale on 22/10/2014.
Categorised under the topic of Health education and preventive medicine.

That this House is aware that every year in the UK approximately 30,000 cardiac arrests occur outside a hospital environment, 80 per cent of which happen in people's homes, with only one in 10 of recipients surviving to be later discharged from a hospital; commends the British Heart Foundation's National Lifesavers Campaign which aims to train people, especially amongst the young, in life-saving (CPR) skills; and calls on the Government to give this organisation its full support and to take action to encourage schools to include such learning as part of all children's education.

This motion has been signed by a total of 40 MPs.