Our 2022 Mission Stats
January 24, 2023
Heartstarters teach CPR to Bristol councillors and a motion is passed to improve defibrillator access
February 3, 2023
An AED is an easy-to-use medical device that can deliver an electrical shock, or defibrillation, to someone who is in cardiac arrest. It is an essential part in trying to save their life. CPR should be done until a defibrillator reaches the person.
Right now, only 40% of people receive early CPR and fewer than 2% have a defibrillator used prior to the ambulance arriving. The availability of AEDs and the knowledge of how to use them is inadequate.
We simply need more defibrillators in our communities.
By placing an AED in your building or street you are increasing the chance of survival for someone suffering a cardiac arrest nearby, by up to 70%. You will help to play a part in ensuring more lives are saved. Lives like those of Steve, Trevor and Chris.
Great Western Air Ambulance Charity (GWAAC) have partnered with Heartsafe to launch an all in one lifesaving automated external defibrillator (AED) package.
The collaboration means it's easy for you to place a defibrillator on your building or in your street. So if someone suffers a cardiac arrest nearby, your AED could save their life.
Here are some of the community champions who have installed a defibrillator in their local area
We The Curious, Millennium Square, Bristol
Louise Polledri - mother of former patient, Sam Polledri and founder of the Sam Polledri Foundation
Clifton Downs Cafe, Bristol
It’s fantastic to see the defibrillator now in position on The Downs Cafe, the culmination of a project made possible by GWAAC, The Downs Cafe and the Sam Polledri Foundation".
- James Hawken, Try Tag Rugby
Churchill Parish Council
W3W - glimmers.cold.kiosk
Codrington Arms, Iron Acton
Brunel's SS Great Britain, Bristol
It’s not only going to support us as an organisation but everyone else in the surrounding community! ”
Mount of Olives Church, Coleford
I approached the church due to the location in a large housing estate and ease of access to the cabinet. They were hugely supportive and between the church members raised over £1300 with another £1000 being provided by a grant that I applied for from Coleford town council.
I chose to work with GWAAC as they have a comprehensive [scheme] for getting a cabinet installed and the support is fantastic. Carlota from Great Western Heartstarters education programme was also able to help me in providing a training session for nearly 30 members of the community to be trained in CPR & use of a defibrillator following the installation of the cabinet.”
Colehouse Farm Caravan Park, Clevedon
Walnut Grove Clinic and Studio, Portishead
Red Boat Consulting, Clevedon
Find your nearest defibrillator
Our crew brought early advanced care to over 500 people suffering a cardiac arrest in 2022, representing 28% of our incidents for that year.
Despite the extraordinary level of medical skill our crew bring to the scene, it's what happens prior to our arrival that can save a life.
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Why get an automated external defibrillator (AED)?
Every year in the UK 30,000 people suffer an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. For every minute that passes, a person's chance of survival goes down by 10%.
Sadly, only 1 in 10 survive.
An AED is an easy-to-use medical device that can deliver an electrical shock, or defibrillation, to someone who is in cardiac arrest. It is an essential part in trying to save their life. CPR should be done until a defibrillator reaches the person.
Right now, only 40% of people receive early CPR and fewer than 2% have a defibrillator used prior to the ambulance arriving. The availability of AEDs and the knowledge of how to use them is inadequate.
We simply need more defibrillators in our communities.
By placing an AED in your building or street you are increasing the chance of survival for someone suffering a cardiac arrest nearby, by up to 70%. You will help to play a part in ensuring more lives are saved. Lives like those of Steve, Trevor and Chris.
