{"id":339947,"date":"2025-08-13T01:49:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T01:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/339947\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T01:49:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T01:49:11","slug":"cpr-skills-training-is-expanded-in-the-west-midlands-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/339947\/","title":{"rendered":"CPR skills training is expanded in the West Midlands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The cash boost will support a two-year project, providing essential training to members of the public in areas of the West Midlands with poorer rates or survival from an out of hospital cardiac arrest.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  WMAS is one of ten NHS ambulance charities in the UK to receive funding from NHS Charities Together.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  This is intended to equip more people with the skills to respond in emergency situations.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Cliff Medlicott, WMAS regional community response manager, said: &#8220;We are incredibly grateful to NHS Charities Together for their support and funding.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Their support is helping us bring vital training to communities that need it most.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Such training is crucial, considering fewer than one in ten individuals who suffer a cardiac arrest outside of hospital return home.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  However, swift action involving early identification, CPR and defibrillation can raise survival chances to over five in ten (50 per cent).\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The initiative is expected to reduce pressure on the NHS by equipping people to respond effectively in emergencies or even prevent them.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Jon Goodwin, head of grants at NHS Charities Together, said: &#8220;The project has the potential to make a huge difference to people living in the West Midlands.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The cash boost will support a two-year project, providing essential training to members of the public in areas&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7820],"tags":[855,748,393,4884,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-339947","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-birmingham","8":"tag-birmingham","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}