Tag: BHF

BHF urges streamers to join lifesaving CPR campaign

Stuart Mitchell

Twitch streamers can help to save lives from cardiac arrest by getting involved in our BHF CPR campaign with media agency PHD.  Each week in the UK, 12 under 35-year-olds lose their lives to sudden cardiac death. However, early CPR and defibrillation can more than double the chance of survival from an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.  Together with PHD, we are asking for the help of UK gamers on streaming service Twitch to raise awareness of the vital skill of CPR.  Streamers can use breaks in play to help save lives…

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Young football fans lost to sudden cardiac death remembered in murals unveiled across the UK

Stuart Mitchell

Twelve powerful murals have been unveiled to highlight the tragic reality that 12 young people under the age of 35 are lost every week to sudden cardiac death in the UK. In time with June’s UEFA Euro 2024 kick-off, each painting commemorates a talented young footballer or fan who died too soon. Several of the artworks feature the emotive message ‘Til I Died’. At a time when the nation is looking forward to celebrating this iconic sporting event, it is yet another reminder of their loss for the families coming…

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BHF becomes a funding charity partner of Our Future Health

Stuart Mitchell

The British Heart Foundation are delighted to become a funding charity partner in Our Future Health, a leading health research programme.   Despite advances in healthcare and medicine, large numbers of people in the UK still spend many years of their later life in poor health because of common diseases and health conditions such as cancer, Alzheimer’s, heart disease, arthritis, diabetes and stroke.  Our Future Health helps health researchers to tackle these major diseases. Using data, Our Future Health aims to develop new ways to detect diseases at an earlier…

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BHF awards £35 million funding to top UK universities

Stuart Mitchell

Nine leading universities will benefit from a record £35 million funding injection from us that will help to strengthen world-leading cardiovascular disease research in the UK.  The funding, through the BHF Research Excellence Awards scheme, will support universities to cultivate world-class research environments that encourage collaboration, inclusion and innovation, and enable visionary scientists to drive lifesaving breakthroughs.   After years of disruption due to the Covid-19 pandemic and uncertainty over the UK’s association with the Horizon funding programme, the awards give UK cardiovascular disease research a much-needed boost. The funding will enable…

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BHF launches free defibrillator scheme to save lives in communities across the UK

Stuart Mitchell

The BHF are urging communities across the UK to apply for a free lifesaving defibrillator from them, supported by fundraising from their charity partner Royal Mail.  There are 220 defibrillator packages available to communities as part of their Community Defibrillator Fund.  The BHF have said that areas with greatest need will be prioritised – those with high deprivation and limited access to defibrillators.  Communities are invited to apply for their free defibrillator on their website here: https://www.bhf.org.uk/defibfunding  The BHF state on their website:  There are over 30,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests…

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