CPR (Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation) to be part of school curriculum.

Rejected 9 signatures

What the petition asks

I would like the Government to make it mandatory for schools to teach CPR to students. Early CPR has shown to more than double the chances of survival in cases of out of hospital cardiac arrests. However, less than one in ten people survive due to the lack of skills to successfully perform CPR.

Death from sudden cardiac arrest doesn't have to be inevitable. If more people knew how to effectively perform CPR, we would have more survivors. A victims chances of survival fall 7 to 10% each minute that they do not receive CPR. Around 70% of the public are not comfortable to give CPR. Putting that into perspective, there are around 67 million people in the UK. 47 million of those people would be unable to save the life of a victim. How scary is that? Lets change those numbers!

Why it was rejected

The UK Government or Parliament was already taking the action it asked for.

How to administer CPR is already part of the health curriculum for secondary schools, which you can see on page 38 of the curriculum guidance here:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1090195/Relationships_Education_RSE_and_Health_Education.pdf

Timeline

19 Aug 2023	Petition opened for signatures
23 Aug 2023	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 9

Status Rejected

Rejected 23 Aug 2023

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