Tag: British Heart Foundation

England football legend David Seaman supporting Tesco and British Heart Foundation campaign to get fans on the ball with checking their blood pressure

Stuart Mitchell

Tesco and British Heart Foundation are reminding people across the UK to prioritise their heart health, alongside getting ready for the upcoming football action, with England potentially on the road to glory.   David Seaman, the ex-England goalkeeper nicknamed ‘Safe Hands’, is encouraging football fans across the UK to put their heart health first by popping to their local Tesco Pharmacy for a free blood pressure check. The supermarket has teamed up with the British Heart Foundation to offer more than 50,000 blood pressure check appointments per week across over 350 Tesco Pharmacies so fans…

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Tesco and leading health charities urge UK Government to mandate health transparency across food industry

Stuart Mitchell

 Tesco teams up with 3 leading UK health charities to support the nation’s health. In an open letter to the Health and Social Care Secretary, Tesco and its three leading health charity partners are urging the UK Government to make healthier food sales reporting mandatory for all supermarkets and major food businesses.   At its Health Charity Partnership summit last week, Tesco Group CEO Ken Murphy met with CEOs from Cancer Research UK, British Heart Foundation and Diabetes UK to discuss how they can help people lead longer, healthier lives.…

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Speedy Hire partners with British Heart Foundation to support ‘Spotlight On’ campaign

Stuart Mitchell

Speedy Hire, the UK’s leading provider of tools, equipment, and plant hire services, has donated £25,000 to the British Heart Foundation (BHF), forming a partnership for its ‘Spotlight On’ campaign, to raise awareness of hidden heart conditions. Colleagues across the Speedy Hire business have recently been sharing stories of their surprise and shock that they had personally experienced mistaking a heart attack diagnosis with less serious medical symptoms such as breathlessness and dizziness. These eye-opening stories prompted Speedy Hire to build on the work it already undertakes with the charity…

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David Seaman shines a spotlight on daily heart disease deaths

Stuart Mitchell

Football legend David Seaman MBE and over 200 supporters came together to shine a spotlight on hidden heart conditions and their impact on the nation every day. Creating a giant heart, one hundred and eighty seats were left empty in a crowded stand at Crystal Palace F.C. in London, to represent the number of lives lost in the UK to coronary heart disease each day – one every eight minutes. British Heart Foundation ambassador David Seaman, who himself lives with a heart condition, was at the centre of the striking…

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Screwfix installs lifesaving defibrillators in all its stores in UK and Ireland in partnership with the British Heart Foundation

Stuart Mitchell

Screwfix has partnered with the British Heart Foundation (BHF) to roll out defibrillators in all of its stores across the UK and Ireland, becoming the first trade retailer to roll-out defibrillators on this scale.  With more than 870 stores across the UK and Ireland, Screwfix is perfectly placed to provide the lifesaving devices in the communities it serves and has worked with BHF to determine what would be best the approach to take to help save more lives. A defibrillator is a device that gives a controlled high energy electric…

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