Question follow-through · 1047
Heart Diseases
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department plans to (a) help increase the survival rate of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests and (b) increase the availability of defibrillators in public settings.
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- Answering body
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Tabled
- 22 Jul 2024
- Target answer date
- 24 Jul 2024
- Answer
- 26 Jul 2024 · 4 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
22 Jul 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department plans to (a) help increase the survival rate of out-of-hospital cardiac arrests and (b) increase the availability of defibrillators in public settings.
24 Jul 2024
Target answer date
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26 Jul 2024
Answer published
As of July 2024, there are 93,113 automated external defibrillators registered in the United Kingdom on the National Defibrillator Network, also known as The Circuit, including 73,682 in England. Moving forward, the Department has asked Professor Lord Dar...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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