Heartstart

Would you know what to do in a life-threatening emergency?

Learning emergency life support skills (ELS) can help you to keep someone alive until professional help arrives.

Heartstart UK is an initiative co-ordinated by the British Heart Foundation (BHF) to provide members of the public with simple skills that could help save a life. The scheme offers practical advice and encourages you to talk about resuscitation and saving lives. 

Knowing what to do when someone has a cardiac arrest is important. If you know CPR, you can buy valuable time and potentially save the life of a loved one. CPR is easy to learn and significantly improves the patient’s chances of survival. 

Over 2.3 million people have already been trained through the Heartstart initiative. 

Through Heartstart, the BHF aims to make training more widely available and increase the number of people in your community that are able to help save a life. 

Our Heartstart courses:

• last for around two hours
• provide very practical hands-on learning
• are free 

Kirkby Lonsdale First Responders work with the BHF to deliver these courses offering practical advice and information on emergency life support (ELS) in the community.

The courses will teach you how to: 

• perform cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR)
• care for an unconscious casualty
• help someone who is choking
• manage severe bleeding
• recognise and treat someone in cardiac arrest  

Effective CPR administered while awaiting the ambulance can double a person’s chance of recovery by strengthening the Chain of Survival. 

We can offer training to all sorts of groups and clubs including sporting organisations, scouts and guides. We can also offer training in ELS skills to secondary school students aged 10 or over. 

Click here for details of how to contact us to arrange training