Heartstart

Would you know what to do in a life-threatening emergency?

 Learning Emergency Life Support (ELS) skills can help you keep someone alive until professional help arrives. Our Heartstart initiative teaches people what to do in a life-threatening emergency, simple skills that save lives.

Heartstart schemes are run by volunteers. schemes are independent of the BHF and provide free ELS training in the community. It's aimed at the public, and anyone from the age of ten can attend and learn the complete range of ELS skills. The Heartstart programme includes skills such as:

Knowing what to do when someone has a cardiac arrest is important. If you can do CPR you can buy the time needed for professional help to arrive and save the life of your loved one.

Being able to do CPR more than doubles the chances of survival.

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The Heartstart course is designed the course to follow the current Resuscitation Council (UK) guidelines. To date 2.6 million people have been trained through Heartstart. Heartstart in the community We work in partnership with many organisations and institutions such as local volunteer groups, the ambulance service and other organisations to establish local community schemes. Many of these schemes run courses that are open to the general public in their local communities. Others teach specific groups, such as employees in large companies, or army cadets and other youth groups, while some focus on heart patients and their families. The course lasts for two hours and provides practical hands-on learning