Learn how to do CPR
- Read a step-by-step guide to CPR
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Learn how to do CPR quickly using these simple instructions.
- Free interactive CPR training
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Learn CPR at home in 15 minutes using just a cushion and a mobile phone or tablet.
- Learn CPR with your organisation
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Use our free tool to learn CPR in your organisation and keep your people safe.
Teach others how to do CPR
- Schools: free interactive CPR training
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Teach your secondary school students how to do CPR and defibrillation straight from their device.
- Free training resources
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Access our free training resources for teaching CPR. These can be used in your community or in your organisation.
Defibrillators
- Learn about defibrillators
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Read about what defibrillators are, how to use them and why they’re so important.
- Find a defibrillator near you
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Search our national directory to see where your nearest defibrillator is located.
- Apply for a funded defibrillator
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Find out if your community group is eligible for a fully-funded defibrillator. Applications close on 28 February.
- Register your defibrillator
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Registering your defibrillator on The Circuit – the national defibrillator network, is crucial. This ensures that emergency services know where it is and can access it in an emergency.
How CPR and defibrillators work together
When somebody is in cardiac arrest, using CPR and a defibrillator together gives them the best chance of survival.
Call 999
If someone is unconscious and not breathing properly, call 999 and ask someone to find a defibrillator.
Start CPR
Give CPR. If you’re by yourself, don’t leave the person alone to find a defibrillator, emergency services will bring one.
Use a defibrillator
Follow the instructions on the defibrillator. This will give an electric shock to the heart. Use alongside CPR until help arrives.
What is a cardiac arrest?
A cardiac arrest is when your heart suddenly stops pumping blood around your body. CPR keeps the blood pumping while help arrives and a defibrillator gives an electric shock to restore the heart’s normal rhythm.
Learn all about cardiac arrests