Cardiac arrest patients face agonising 9-minute wait for a defibrillator
Daily Express|July 05, 2024
Postcode lottery over access to vital equipment
Hanna Geissler
Cardiac arrest patients face agonising 9-minute wait for a defibrillator

PEOPLE suffering a cardiac arrest face a potentially deadly nine-minute wait for a defibrillator in some areas of Britain, analysis reveals.

More than 92,000 publicly accessible devices have been registered on The Circuit, the national network used to direct 999 callers to their nearest one. But data from the British Heart Foundation shows coverage is worryingly low in some postcodes.

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