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<p>To improve survival rates for out-of-hospital cardiac arrest cases, the National
Health Service Long Term Plan sets out that a national network of community first
responders and automated external defibrillators will help save up to 4,000 lives
each year by 2028.</p><p>Working with St John Ambulance, 141 community advocates have
been recruited to deliver sessions in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and defibrillator
use. As of December 2022, 163 sessions had been delivered and 3,249 people had been
reached by these advocates.</p><p>The NHS has also been working in partnership with
the British Heart Foundation, the Resuscitation Council UK, and the Association of
Ambulance Chief Executives to set up The Circuit, which is a national defibrillator
network that enables the ambulance services to identify the nearest defibrillator
at the time of an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest and increase the rate of bystander
defibrillation.</p>
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