That’s why I’ve committed to increasing access to defibrillators as part of my action to build a safer city for everyone. “Simply put, defibrillators save lives, and you don’t need training to use one. The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, said: “I am delighted that the London Ambulance Service has joined The Circuit platform, which is a fantastic, life-saving database of defibrillators. We need everyone’s help to finish the job by making sure that your local defibrillators are registered on The Circuit.”
We think there are still tens of thousands of defibrillators which are essentially lost to ambulance services. "The Circuit allows 999 call handlers to find the nearest life-saving device in an emergency, which is why I’m so thrilled that every ambulance service in the UK now has access to this pioneering database. We are urging anyone who looks after defibrillators in public places, communities or businesses, to register them on The Circuit.ĭr Charmaine Griffiths, our Chief Executive, said: “Seconds matter when someone has a cardiac arrest, and the difference between life and death could be knowing where the nearest defibrillator is. It’s estimated that tens of thousands of defibrillators remain unknown to ambulance services, meaning emergency services cannot direct bystanders to them in the event of a cardiac arrest. The Circuit recently celebrated a milestone of 50,000 mapped defibrillators – representing around half of the estimated 100,000 defibrillators in the UK being registered on The Circuit. Its aim is to map all public access defibrillators, so that when someone has a cardiac arrest, 999 call handlers can direct bystanders to the nearest registered defibrillator while they wait for the ambulance to arrive.Ĭall to register defibs on the new database To improve survival rates, we came together with our partners, Resuscitation Council UK (RCUK) St John Ambulance, and Association of Ambulance Chief Executives (AACE), to roll out The Circuit: the national defibrillator network. We developed The Circuit as part of our mission to improve the UK’s out-of-hospital cardiac arrest survival rates. Immediate CPR and defibrillation can more than double the chances of survival - however public access defibrillators are used in less than one in ten cases. There are more than 30,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests every year in the UK, but fewer than one in ten people survive.
Landmark moment as The Circuit becomes fully nationwideĬategory: Survival and support Today, the London Ambulance Service has joined The Circuit – a landmark moment which means for the first time all ambulance services across the UK are using the same defibrillator database.įrom John O’Groats to Land’s End and across the Irish Sea to Northern Ireland, all 14 UK ambulance services can now find nearby defibrillators more quickly and check they’re ready for an emergency, thanks to The Circuit.
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