For the first time ever, each of the 14 ambulance services across the UK have joined The Circuit to share the locations of defibrillators across the UK.  However, at the moment, many defibrillators never get used because emergency services don’t know where they are or how to access them.

The Circuit – the national defibrillator network provides a national overview of where defibrillators can be found and for the first time brings this information together in one database.  As defibrillators are registered on The Circuit, their location and status is instantly synchronised with the emergency services’ systems ensuring that their information is always up to date and ready to help save lives.  This has enable The Circuit to map 50,000 defibrillators.  Impressive, but this only represents around half of the estimated 100,000 defibrillators in the UK.

The Circuit is the key to making sure that whenever and wherever a cardiac arrest happens, the people on the scene can get to the nearest working defibrillator quickly.  Whether it’s in a local pub, shopping centre or office - every defibrillator matters.

To improve survival rates, the Resuscitation Council UK, along with the British Heart Foundation (BHF), St John Ambulance and Association of Ambulance Chief Executives (AACE) are calling on anyone who looks after defibrillators in places such as offices, communities, shopping centres, leisure centres, and in public places, to ensure your device is registered on The Circuit.



So, make your New Years resolution an easy one.  If you have a public access defibrillator on your building, in your workplace make sure it is registered on The Circuit.  Registration could be the difference between life and death.

To register for The Circuit and provide details of your public access defibrillator sign up here or check out The Circuit website for more information.