DEFIBRILLATOR CAMPAIGN ...
SAVING LIVES AFTER CARDIAC ARREST
SAVING LIVES AFTER CARDIAC ARREST
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The East London man taking on Boots over refusal to pay for life-saving equipment outside every shop' - MyLondon - 06 October 2022 |
ACCESS TO DEFIBRILLATORS IN LONDON'S SCHOOLS, LOCAL AUTHORITIES AND PHARMACIES
November 2017 ... 17 pages |
DEFIBRILLATOR CAMPAIGN 2017 ... Lord Toby Harris calls on Boots the Chemist to provide defibrillators in their Branches
08 September 2017
Lord Toby Harris has called on Boots the Chemist to ensure that their branches have installed defibrillators with staff trained to use them.
In a letter to Boots' Vice-President, Andrew Thompson, he said:
"32% of people survive a cardiac arrest, but where there is a defibrillator installed and people trained to use it, the chance of survival rises to 80%. Boots the Chemist have an important and respected place on our high streets and their branches are seen as places where the public can receive health advice and support, as well as traditional pharmacy services. I do hope that Boots will now build on this reputation and ensure that life-saving defibrillators are provided in their network. A number of major retailers including - as I understand it - Sainsbury's and John Lewis, have already agreed to do this."
BUT ... Message from Lord Harris
I'm about to tweet that I haven't had a reply!
08 September 2017
Lord Toby Harris has called on Boots the Chemist to ensure that their branches have installed defibrillators with staff trained to use them.
In a letter to Boots' Vice-President, Andrew Thompson, he said:
"32% of people survive a cardiac arrest, but where there is a defibrillator installed and people trained to use it, the chance of survival rises to 80%. Boots the Chemist have an important and respected place on our high streets and their branches are seen as places where the public can receive health advice and support, as well as traditional pharmacy services. I do hope that Boots will now build on this reputation and ensure that life-saving defibrillators are provided in their network. A number of major retailers including - as I understand it - Sainsbury's and John Lewis, have already agreed to do this."
BUT ... Message from Lord Harris
I'm about to tweet that I haven't had a reply!
DEFIBRILLATORS IN BOOTS' PHARMACIES - URGENT HELP NEEDED
Our campaign to encourage Boots to install defibs in their pharmacies seems to be achieving success. They were totally resistant to purchasing defibs for installation, but we have heard that they are to make a decision tomorrow at Board level on a possible change of policy, which would lead them to installing in a significant number of stores in key locations.
Would it be possible for you to send a short note today (16 August) to Elizabeth Fagan (CE) and Andrew Thompson (Vice President), asking them to agree to purchase and install defibs in their pharmacies? We just need a bit more pressure to ensure success. If you can also ask other friends and colleagues to write that would be great:
[email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
Elizabeth Fagan is MD and Andrew Thompson is Vice President.
Please encourage and persuade Elizabeth Fagan, Managing Director, Boots UK Limited, to purchase defibrillators to install in all Boot’s stores, in order to save the lives of customers and staff who go into cardiac arrest.
Our campaign to encourage Boots to install defibs in their pharmacies seems to be achieving success. They were totally resistant to purchasing defibs for installation, but we have heard that they are to make a decision tomorrow at Board level on a possible change of policy, which would lead them to installing in a significant number of stores in key locations.
Would it be possible for you to send a short note today (16 August) to Elizabeth Fagan (CE) and Andrew Thompson (Vice President), asking them to agree to purchase and install defibs in their pharmacies? We just need a bit more pressure to ensure success. If you can also ask other friends and colleagues to write that would be great:
[email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
Elizabeth Fagan is MD and Andrew Thompson is Vice President.
Please encourage and persuade Elizabeth Fagan, Managing Director, Boots UK Limited, to purchase defibrillators to install in all Boot’s stores, in order to save the lives of customers and staff who go into cardiac arrest.
DEFIBRILLATOR INSTALLING AT CHURCH
The Patient' Form, the London Ambulance Service and Father Tom Udie met the Church of the English Martyrs in Southwark to install a defibrillator in the Church. Members of the congregation will be invited to train in the life support to save the life of anyone suffering a cardiac arrest.
The Patient' Form, the London Ambulance Service and Father Tom Udie met the Church of the English Martyrs in Southwark to install a defibrillator in the Church. Members of the congregation will be invited to train in the life support to save the life of anyone suffering a cardiac arrest.
John Lewis Partnership - Correspondence 2017
JOHN LEWIS HAS NOW INSTALLED DEFIBRILLATORS ... Letter from Benet Northcote, Director, Corporate Responsibility, John Lewis Partnership to Malcolm Alexander, Chair PFLAS - 26 April 2017 |
THE DEFIBRILLATORS (AVAILABILITY) BILL 2016-2017 ... 2 pages
Boots UK Limited - Correspondence - 2016 / 2017
Please write URGENTLY to:
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Urgent Action - Please write to your MP urgently - Bills returns to Parliament on Friday, 24 March 2017
Click this link for a letter template
Letter to MPs from Malcolm Alexander, Chair, PFLAS - 20 February 2017
Click this link for a letter template
Letter to MPs from Malcolm Alexander, Chair, PFLAS - 20 February 2017
- Please urgently ask your MP to support this Bill. It is best to email your MP. You can contact your MP at 0207 219 300 for contact details.
Boots' current position is as follows:
1) Support the installation of defibrillators on the outside of stores, but will not make any financial contribution to
their cost or installation or maintenance.
2) Unable to tell the Forum where defibrillators have been installed on Boots stores.
3) Support suitable requests from third parties to install public access defibrillators on your stores.
4) Will make sure there are adequate Governance arrangement for defibrillators, including ambulance service
liaison, maintenance and testing, by requiring the organisation that funds the defibrillator to make these
arrangements.
5) Require 24 hour access to all defibrillators fitted on your stores and the identification of local responders - but
do not require your own CPR trained staff to act as local responders.
1) Support the installation of defibrillators on the outside of stores, but will not make any financial contribution to
their cost or installation or maintenance.
2) Unable to tell the Forum where defibrillators have been installed on Boots stores.
3) Support suitable requests from third parties to install public access defibrillators on your stores.
4) Will make sure there are adequate Governance arrangement for defibrillators, including ambulance service
liaison, maintenance and testing, by requiring the organisation that funds the defibrillator to make these
arrangements.
5) Require 24 hour access to all defibrillators fitted on your stores and the identification of local responders - but
do not require your own CPR trained staff to act as local responders.
- Letter to Adrian Bremner, Head of Safety and Governance, Boots UK Limited from Malcolm Alexander, Chair, PFLAS - 30 April 2017
- Letter to the PFLAS from Malcolm Alexander, Chair - re. installations at Sainsbury's, John Lewis and the campaign at Boots - 26 April 2017
- Letter to Adrian Bremner, Head of Safety and Governance, Boots UK Limited, from Malcolm Alexander, Chair, PFLAS - 22 April 2017
- Email to Malcolm Alexander, Chair, PFLAS from Adrian Bremner, Head of Safety and Governance, Boots UK Limited - undated
- Email to Malcolm Alexander, Chair, PFLAS from Adrian Bremner, Head of Safety and Governance, Boots UK Limited - undated
- Email to Adrian Bremner, Head of Safety and Governance, Boots UK Limited, from Malcolm Alexander, Chair, PFLAS - 17 Feb 2017
- Email to Malcolm Alexander, Chair, PFLAS from Adrian Bremner, Head of Safety and Governance, Boots UK Limited - undated
- Email to Adrian Bremner, Head of Safety and Governance, Boots UK Limited, from Malcolm Alexander, Chair, PFLAS - 28 January 2016
- Letter to Adrian Bremner, Head of Safety and Governance, Boots UK Limited, from Malcolm Alexander, Chair, PFLAS - 19 January 2016
100 DEFIBRILLATORS TO BE INSTALLED AT SAINSBURY'S
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Installation of defibrillators in supermarkets, chemists, GP surgeries and stations is saving hundreds of lives of people suffering cardiac arrest in a public places. Cardiac arrest kills unless rapid CPR and defibrillation is available to resuscitate the patient. Rapid access and use of defibrillators is vital in the period before an ambulance arrives and takes the patient to a specialist NHS cardiac centre.
Sainsbury’s has committed to the national task of restarting the hearts of cardiac arrest patients, by installing 100 defibrillators in their stores across the country. This major breakthrough will be celebrated on November 1st at a meeting between Sainsbury’s Director Jon Hartland, Heather Lawrence Chair of London Ambulance Service and Malcolm Alexander from the Patients Forum at the new Sainsbury’s supermarket in Nine Elms.
Malcolm Alexander, Chair of the Patients’ Forum said: “We congratulate Sainsbury’s for their commitment to saving the lives of customers and staff who tragically suffer cardiac arrest (CA). Every second counts following a CA, and having a defibrillator in store with trained staff will literally restore life and bring great happiness to patients who could so easily have died without resuscitation.
The Forum is also delighted that John Lewis has agreed to support this campaign to save lives. Discussions with Boots the Chemist have also begun. We see a time, in the near future, when everybody is within a short distance of a defibrillator and every school child trained in resuscitation”.
Sainsbury’s has committed to the national task of restarting the hearts of cardiac arrest patients, by installing 100 defibrillators in their stores across the country. This major breakthrough will be celebrated on November 1st at a meeting between Sainsbury’s Director Jon Hartland, Heather Lawrence Chair of London Ambulance Service and Malcolm Alexander from the Patients Forum at the new Sainsbury’s supermarket in Nine Elms.
Malcolm Alexander, Chair of the Patients’ Forum said: “We congratulate Sainsbury’s for their commitment to saving the lives of customers and staff who tragically suffer cardiac arrest (CA). Every second counts following a CA, and having a defibrillator in store with trained staff will literally restore life and bring great happiness to patients who could so easily have died without resuscitation.
The Forum is also delighted that John Lewis has agreed to support this campaign to save lives. Discussions with Boots the Chemist have also begun. We see a time, in the near future, when everybody is within a short distance of a defibrillator and every school child trained in resuscitation”.
SAVING LIVES AFTER CARDIAC ARREST - DEFIBRILLATOR CAMPAIGN IN LONDON
Letter from Malcolm Alexander, Chair, PFLAS to Sainsburys - 10 May 2016 Defibrillator Accreditation Scheme - 16 pages A defibrillator is a machine used to give an electric shock to restart a patient's heart when they are in cardiac arrest. If there were more public-access defibrillators, more people could get the life-saving shock as quickly as possible, giving them the best chance of survival. The London Ambulance Service’s defibrillator accreditation scheme offers you formal guidance and support in buying, storing and using a defibrillator, which is easy and safe to use. |
DEFIBRILLATOR ACCREDITATIN SCHEME ... 16 pages
The accreditation scheme offers formal guidance and support in buying, storing and using a defibrillator. |
SAVING LIVES AFTER CARDIAC ARREST - DEFIBRILLATOR CAMPAIGN
0207 219 300 for contact details.
- Urgent Action - Please write to your MP urgently - Bills returns to Parliament on Friday, 24 March 2017 - Click this link for a letter template
- Letter to MPs from Malcolm Alexander, Chair, PFLAS - 20 February 2017
0207 219 300 for contact details.
- Email to Malcolm Alexander, Chair, PFLAS from Adrian Bremner, Head of Safety and Governance, Boots UK Limited - undated
- Email to Malcolm Alexander, Chair, PFLAS from Adrian Bremner, Head of Safety and Governance, Boots UK Limited - undated
- Email to Adrian Bremner, Head of Safety and Governance, Boots UK Limited, from Malcolm Alexander, Chair, PFLAS - 17 February 2017
- Email to Malcolm Alexander, Chair, PFLAS from Adrian Bremner, Head of Safety and Governance, Boots UK Limited - undated
- Email to Adrian Bremner, Head of Safety and Governance, Boots UK Limited, from Malcolm Alexander, Chair, PFLAS - 28 January 2016
- Letter to Adrian Bremner, Head of Safety and Governance, Boots UK Limited, from Malcolm Alexander, Chair, PFLAS - 19 January 2016
THE LEGAL STATUS OF THOSE WHO ATTEMPT RESUSCITATION
August 2010 ... 10 pages
August 2010 ... 10 pages