Free Emergency Life Support Training

Heartstart UK is the national scheme co-ordinated by the British Heart Foundation (BHF) to teach members of the public skills to use in a life-threatening emergency.

The skills of emergency life support (ELS) are simple and can save lives. ELS is the set of actions needed to keep someone alive until professional help arrives. They include performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), dealing with choking, serious bleeding and helping someone that may be having a heart attack.

The most important factor determining survival after a cardiac arrest is the time from collapse of the casualty to defibrillation. Performing early CPR buys time and more than doubles the chances of survival. Through Heartstart UK the BHF aims to make free CPR training more widely available.


Heartstart Somerset County
Heartstart Somerset County is a charity organisation providing free CPR training to members of the public in Somerset. All our Instructors are volunteers recruited from the Resuscitation Training Department of Musgrove Park Hospital, Devon & Somerset Fire and Rescue Service, and other emergency services professionals. We are affiliated to the British Heart Foundation.


Heartstart UK in schools
Young people aged ten years and over can attend a Heartstart UK course. However, simple skills like making a 999 call can still be taught to much younger children.


Would you know what to do in a life-threatening emergency?

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