Restart a Heart Day October 16, 2021

Restart a Heart Day raises awareness about cardiac arrest and helps people to learn CPR, giving them life saving skills and the confidence to use them.

It is as important as ever to give CPR and use a defibrillator when someone is in cardiac arrest. If you want to teach CPR skills, teach the hands only adjusted method in line with government social distancing guidance

The next Restart a Heart Day will take place on 16 October 2021.

The Resuscitation Council UK along with the British Heart Foundation, British Red Cross, St John Ambulance, NHS Ambulance Service and Saving Lives for Scotland work together to help raise awareness of cardiac arrest and teach CPR.

In 2019, an amazing 291,000 were trained in CPR through Restart a Heart Day.

Why is it important?

Cardiac arrests have not stopped during the coronavirus pandemic. If you have an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in the UK you have less than a one in ten chance of surviving.

We want to change that by making sure that as many people as possible know that when someone collapses and stops breathing normally, it is important to quickly call 999, perform hands-only CPR and use a defibrillator. This gives mums, dads, sons, daughters and friends the best chance of surviving.

Hands-only CPR reduces your risk of catching an infection, and without intervention it’s unlikely the person in cardiac arrest will survive.

How can you get involved?

We're pleased that face-to-face training sessions are now permitted. We would encourage you to deliver your session in a method that is safe for you and your trainees.

COVID-19

You shouldn’t come to training if:

• you have any symptoms of Covid-19 (new persistent cough, high temperature, loss of sense of smell or taste) or
• you have been told you should isolate by NHS Test and Trace or
• you have recently come into contact with someone who has Covid-19.

Learn how to run CPR training safely

Guidance for face-to-face sessions

• Keep training rooms well ventilated.
• Have hand sanitiser available or make sure hands are regularly being washed.
• Everyone should be encouraged to wear a face covering, in line with guidance for your nation.
• All training outside of school settings must be taught with the current government social distancing advice.
• Manikins and any other training equipment should be regularly cleaned. Find out more about how to look after your kit.
• Outside of a school setting, please follow government Test and Trace guidelines so that you can stay informed of any coronavirus (Covid-19) cases after a training session. In a school setting, please follow your agreed process for reporting any cases of coronavirus.

Resources

There are online videos available to make training as easy as possible for your:

• school or local community group
• organisation

Certificates

You can reward everyone that learns CPR on Restart a Heart Day, and the trainers and volunteers. Download editable, digital Restart a Heart Day certificates in English or Welsh:

• English certificate for those that learn CPR
• Welsh certificate for those that learn CPR
• English certificate for those that know CPR and volunteer
• Welsh certificate for those that know CPR and volunteer
• English certificate for those that know CPR and train others
• Welsh certificate for those that know CPR and train others.

What do you need to do now?

1. Get your CPR training kit ready

• Secondary school
  If you work for a secondary school, your school may already have one of our free Call Push Rescue training kits. If you aren’t sure, ask around and see who might be storing it. Then you’re ready to start training. If you don’t have a kit yet, and your school is eligible, you can apply for one.

• Workplace or community group
  If you want to train your workplace or community group, you can buy a kit online. It contains everything you need to run a CPR training session, including reusable manikins, and a training DVD so no instructor is needed. Alternatively you can watch the training video online.

2. Run your training digitally or face to face on or around Restart a Heart Day, 16 October.

3. Use #RestartAHeart to follow what's happening on the day.

Not sure why CPR training is important? Find out about cardiac arrest, CPR and why we’re building a nation of life savers.

You don’t have to wait for Restart a Heart Day to start CPR training. Watch the videos now or get your CPR training kit and help more people learn how to save a life.

Do you know how to do hands-only CPR?

In 2019, an amazing 291,000 were trained in CPR through Restart a Heart Day. Learn hands-only CPR this Restart a Heart Day on 16 October 2021.

Learn how to do hands-only CPR