North East joins national lifesaving circuit of community accessible defibrillators

After many months of testing, from this week, health advisors and dispatchers dealing with emergency 999 and urgent 111 calls for the service will have access to over 60,000 defibrillators UK wide instead of the 1,200 based solely in the North East.  Having access to the UK Circuit means that when calls are taken from different parts of the region, community defibs are visible to the teams looking for the nearest resources and can send a person on the scene of an incident to retrieve a nearby defibrillator ...