Who are we?
Herefordshire Heartstart is a voluntary organisation established in 1996 to teach the people of Herefordshire Emergency Life Support (ELS) skills. These skills are the actions needed to help keep someone alive until professional help arrives.
To date we have trained in excess of 15,000 people of all age ranges and backgrounds.
Our aim is to save lives in the community by strengthening the chain of survival.When someone suffers a cardiac arrest their life may depend on a bystander who has learned ELS skills. The trained person can recognise what has happened, call for professional help and perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) to buy the casualty time. In most cases a defibrillator is required to restart their heart and this needs to be applied as soon as possible for the best chance of survival
