Written Question·Department of Health and Social Care·UIN 38578

Heart Diseases: Medical Treatments

Tabled: 17 March 2025
Answered: 25 March 2025

Question

Jim Shannon

Democratic Unionist Party — Strangford

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

Ashley Dalton
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...
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