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The BHF joins forces with Microsoft and the NHS to save thousands more lives from cardiac arrests

Stuart Mitchell

Thousands more lives could be saved from cardiac arrests, thanks to a ground-breaking partnership between the NHS, the British Heart Foundation (BHF), and Microsoft. The new partnership aims to map all of the UK’s defibrillators, with a shared ambition for the life-saving devices to be made readily available for every out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. The initiative is in response to shocking figures that show public access defibrillators are used in less than 3 per cent of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests, significantly reducing the survival chances of tens of thousands of people every…

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This week is Organ Donation Week: 4-10 September

Stuart Mitchell

This week is Organ Donation Week, and this year’s campaign focuses on the importance of talking about organ donation with your family. It features a film about two little brothers, Louie and Freddie, who have experienced the extraordinary impact that organ donation can bring. The campaign aims to: promote public awareness about organ donation and transplant encourage people to join the NHS Organ Donor Register encourage people to share their donation decision with their family and friends In the UK Around 6,500 people across the UK are waiting for an organ…

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