We are conducting a survey to help us understand the services provided to survivors of out of hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) in the UK. 

The survey is aimed at healthcare professionals who work in hospitals and are involved in the management and treatment of patients after a cardiac arrest. We’re looking to learn about the services provided to this group of patients before and after discharge from hospital.   

We’re carrying out this survey now in light of recommendations for care providers that feature in our 2021 guidelines. We intend to develop a Quality Standard for survivors of OHCA, and the results from this survey will help us to understand what’s offered now, the patient need and any barriers to delivering services for this group of patients.  

The Quality Standard will provide guidance to help those developing and delivering services across the UK, allowing our community to better support survivors of out of hospital cardiac arrest. 

If you are a healthcare professional involved with providing services for this group, please complete our survey. Please share the survey with any healthcare professional who may be able to complete it. 

The survey will close on Friday 10 September. 

We are excited to be advertising five new job vacancies at RCUK. We are looking for people who are as passionate as we are to saving lives and who can use their skills to help us deliver our organisation’s vision. 

With vacancies across communications and marketing, clinical and operational duties, there has never been a more exciting time to join the RCUK team. 

The roles we’re looking to fill are: 

 

The deadline to apply is 5pm on Sunday, 15th August. To learn about these roles, and the work we’re doing to create an equitable, accessible recruitment process, visit resus.org.uk/recruitment. 

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Coming soon: We have two additional opportunities to work alongside RCUK opening later this month.  

RCUK (alongside ALSG) are looking for new Generic Instructor Course (GIC) Educators to contribute to educational developments across our organisations. 

In addition, we will be opening applications for elected positions on our Executive Committee. Applications will be open to full RCUK members – so if you’re planning on applying, make sure you’ve purchased or renewed your Full Membership by 20 August. 

Both roles will be advertised at resus.org.uk and on our social media channels – so keep an eye on those to be the first to know! 

In 2020, RCUK developed a diversity and inclusion policy designed to encourage and embrace diversity and equity both within our teams, and within the work we do. The policy outlines a range of actions we will take to reduce inequality and encourage diversity.

Since the policy was developed, we’ve embedded diversity and inclusion into everything we do. From creating course manuals using imagery that is more representative of our healthcare community than ever, to ensuring our recruitment processes encourage diverse applicants and are accessible for all, RCUK staff are committed to implementing the policy. 

Our longer-term objectives look at tackling some of the wider structural inequalities that affect our organisation internally, such as increasing diversity in our boards and committees, and external inequalities that impact our work, such as health inequalities across the UK. 

This work is essential to us. We want resuscitation to become a mechanism to reduce social inequalities, not another measure of them - which is why it's important to us that everyone has the skills to save a life, and that appropriate resuscitation is accessible to all.

We encourage you to read our page about Diversity and Inclusion, where you can feed back and tell us your thoughts and ideas about how we can take action on this important issue. 

Get Guidelines 2021 on the go: download the iResus app today to access life-saving algorithms anytime, anywhere.  

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Restart a Heart Day is on 16 October! Find out how you can get involved in a digital or in-person training event by visiting our Restart a Heart page, and fill out our online form if you're planning on hosting an event.  

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If you have have used version 3 of the ReSPECT form, help us learn about your experience by completing our online survey. 

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RCUK’s professional resuscitation training courses are running across the UK – and they’ve recently been updated to include changes to resuscitation from Guidelines 2021. Book your course today!

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If you’ve been a Course/Medical Director for at least one year, and you’ve taught or directed on at least 6 ALS courses, apply to one of our open ALS Regional Rep roles - we have medical vacancies in Wales, East Anglia and North-West Thames, and non-medical roles in Wales, Yorkshire, Northern Ireland and North-West Thames. Please email LMS@resus.org.uk for more information.

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CPR training in the workplace has never been more important. Learn about how e-Lifesaver can bring essential CPR skills to your workforce.  

When someone collapses and stops breathing normally, early CPR and defibrillation can double the chances of survival.

Knowing where the nearest defibrillator is can make all the difference when every second counts – but not all defibrillators are known to the ambulance services, putting lives at risk across the UK. 

We’re partnering with the British Heart Foundation, St John Ambulance and the Association of Ambulance Chief Executives on The Circuit, a defibrillator network that will ensure ambulance call handlers are able to quickly direct people to their nearest defibrillator in an emergency.   

If you’re a defibrillator guardian, make sure your defibrillator is connected to The Circuit, and help us make sure it has the chance to be used in an emergency.