RCUK and GoodSAM team up to save lives with CPR training

In the UK around 73,000 people suffer an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest each year, that’s around 200 people every single day. Sadly the survival rate is less than 1 in 10, and survival falls by 10% for every minute a patient doesn’t receive CPR or defibrillation.  

With 80% of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests happening at home and new research suggesting only 51% of people would feel confident in responding to a family member suffering a cardiac arrest, RCUK has teamed up with GoodSAM, a platform used to alert people to cardiac arrests in their area, to provide vital CPR training and defibrillator awareness to increase the numbers of people available to respond to the ultimate medical emergency.

Once people have been trained through RCUK’s lifesaver course, they’ll be able to sign up to GoodSAM as a volunteer cardiac responder, and they’ll be notified of a cardiac arrest in their local community – via their phone.