Tesco becomes UK’s first supermarket to join defibrillator network that could save lives

Tesco has become the UK’s first supermarket to begin registering its 2190 defibrillators to a new national database that could improve cardiac arrest survival rates in the UK. It is the biggest single addition of defibrillators to the database so far. The database, called The Circuit: The National Defibrillator Network, aims to map all public access defibrillators, allowing ambulance services to direct bystanders to the nearest registered defibrillator if they see somebody having a cardiac arrest. There are more than 30,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests every year in the UK, but…

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