Project Defibrillator - Beginnings

For any neighbourhood, eg parish council area, one might hope hope that local residents and businesses will develop together their scheme for public access defibrillators (PADs) as self-standing or as part of their neighbourhood plan for their village or town.

Each settlement will need to create a team of partners to take a proposal for their local PAD infrastructure.

Activities

The activites that the group might do include:

   1   assess the need for a PAD project in their locality;
   2   plan  the project in their neighbourhood (town or village);
   3   make contact with property owners willing to allow a PAD on the outside of their building;
    4  procure a defibrillator, box, and materials etc;
    5  arrange for the long term checking and care of the PAD and any associated materials;
    6  train several operators in concomitant first aid (for survival of vitims of cardiac arrest);
    7  raise funds for the scheme
    8  liaise with prospective partners in the scheme, eg parish or town councils, health and care providers, local charities, doctors, dentists, supermarkets, leisure centres and other high footfall        places.

ProgrammeAlthough individual pads might be in place with a quickly formed suppot team within say, 6 months it is likely that the standard of one PAD in each square mille will take a long time. A target date to wind up a programme of for 150 square miles might be the end of March 2022 - 10 years' time, ie one covering towns and villages ina a district which extends to that area. 

Thus, hopefully, all incidents of cardiac arrest will be coverable within 10 years!