Learn Lifesaving skills

The South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust (SWASFT) is inviting guests to a free community event to learn lifesaving CPR, as part of Restart a Heart Day activities in Wiltshire.

The event will take place in the Longhouse on Sunday 20 October 2024, between 10am and 3pm.

This national campaign aims to raise awareness about cardiac arrest and helps people to learn CPR, giving them lifesaving skills and the confidence to use them. At each event, people of all ages can learn how to deliver lifesaving CPR and how to use and locate a defibrillator.

Members of team SWASFT, including paramedics, emergency care assistants, volunteer community first responders and representatives of the Volunteering & Community Services Department, will be on hand to answer any questions and share their extensive knowledge.

There will be in-depth CPR demonstrations for members of the public to join and take part in. Certificates will be given to everyone who completes the 15-minute CPR sessions. However, any time spent learning about CPR and defibrillation with the team will help towards increasing survival rates for out of hospital cardiac arrest in the South West.