Everyturn Mental Health’s North East Safe Havens have purchased and installed three Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs), which are now available at our Safe Havens to ensure our teams create even safer spaces for the people we support.
The AEDs have been supplied by London Hearts, a UK charity who increase access to defibrillators and life-saving training. They have already installed over 25,000 devices across the UK and trained more than 200,000 people nationwide, which includes giving detailed training to our Safe Haven teams on how to use these AED’s safely.
Using a defibrillation within the first few minutes of someone experiencing a cardiac arrest is critical as it can increase someone’s survival rates by 70%.
Emma Millar, Everyturn’s Patient Safety & Experience Manager commented
“We’re incredibly proud to be working with London Hearts. Having AED’s available in our Newcastle, Northumberland and North Tyneside Safe Havens is another way of ensuring our service users and colleagues are safe”.
“And by registering our devices with The Circuit, a national defibrillator UK network, managed by the British Heart Foundation (BHF) and in partnership with the NHS, we’re also helping emergency services locate nearby AED’s, extending the support to anyone that needs it outside of our services.”