Round Hill Community Defibrillator

Hello, my name is Dominic Furlong. This fundraising page has been set up to collect donations towards buying and installing a community defibrillator for the Round Hill neighbourhood in Brighton & Hove.

Round Hill needs its own defibrillator. According to defibfinder.co.uk, our nearest publicly available, 24/7 access defibrillator is at Jubilee Library! The British Heart Foundation (BHF) says fewer than 1 in 10 people in the UK survive an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest because there aren’t enough people prepared to perform CPR and the lack of publicly accessible defibrillators.

As of May 2022, South East Coast Ambulance Service's average response time to category 1 calls – the most urgent requiring immediate medical attention – was over 8 minutes. No training is needed to use a defibrillator -- it provides audible prompts for performing CPR, analysing the heart rhythm, and shocking the person if necessary. CPR buys time but defibrillators can save lives. The latest research shows that accessing these devices within 3-5 minutes of a cardiac arrest increases the chances of survival by more than 40%.

The funds raised will be used to purchase a defibrillator suitable for use on adults and children, a cabinet for storage, and the electrical installation of the cabinet.