{"id":340594,"date":"2025-08-13T07:44:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T07:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/340594\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T07:44:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T07:44:12","slug":"calling-all-learner-drivers-new-theory-test-questions-on-the-way-uk-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/340594\/","title":{"rendered":"Calling all learner drivers – new theory test questions on the way | UK News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Learner drivers will now be quizzed on their life-saving CPR skills when taking their theory tests.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The new questions on CPR and defibrillators will be added to theory tests from early next year.<\/p>\n

“Part of being a safe and responsible driver is knowing what to do in an emergency – how to step in and make a real, life-saving difference,” said Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency (DVSA) chief driving examiner Mark Winn.<\/p>\n

“Learning CPR and how to use a defibrillator is a very simple skill.”<\/p>\n

More than 40,000 people in the UK suffer an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest every year and motorists are often first on the scene, according to the DVSA.<\/p>\n

However, fewer than one in 10 people survive.<\/p>\n

If CPR is given and a defibrillator used within three to five minutes of collapse, though, survival rates can be as high as 70%.<\/p>\n

‘Life-saving’<\/strong><\/p>\n

A father whose 24-year-old daughter died in 2017 from complications following a cardiac arrest led the calls for this change.<\/p>\n

\"Len<\/p>\n

Image:
\n Len Nokes with daughter Claire, who died in 2017 following a cardiac arrest. Pic: Family handout\/Cardiff and Vale UHB<\/p>\n

“When Claire, my daughter, had her cardiac arrest, some knowledge of CPR might have made a difference,” said Professor Len Nokes, chair of Save a Life Cymru.<\/p>\n

“I don’t want any other family to go through this experience.<\/p>\n

“All of us in this partnership hope that by making CPR and how to use a defibrillator part of the theory test, we will be able to significantly increase the number of people who have this life-saving awareness.”<\/p>\n

Read more from Sky News:
Water shortfall declared ‘nationally significant’<\/a>
New pancreatic cancer vaccine shows promise in trial<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

In order to book a practical driving test, learner drivers must first pass their theory test with at least 43 out of 50 correct answers.<\/p>\n

They must also pass a hazard perception test.<\/p>\n

More than two million theory tests are taken each year, with a pass rate of about 45%.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Learner drivers will now be quizzed on their life-saving CPR skills when taking their theory tests.\u00a0 The new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-340594","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115020343829248225","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340594","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=340594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}