05 Aug 2025
The Scottish Ambulance Service urges public to become lifesavers at Restart a Heart Live
The Scottish Ambulance Service is urging the public to become lifesavers by signing up for a free 20-minute event on Wednesday 1 October.
The Restart a Heart Live event is online, inclusive CPR and defibrillator training that anyone can attend, and no equipment is required. There will be sessions tailored for primary and secondary school children in the morning and sessions for the wider public in the afternoon and early evening.
Hosted by the Scottish Ambulance Service, in partnership with Save a Life for Scotland, Save a Life Cymru, Resuscitation Council UK, and the Association of Ambulance Chief Executives, the event last year smashed a Guinness World Record with over 5,000 members of the public tuning in. This year the hosts are taking the event nationwide and are hoping to build on the number of people learning lifesaving skills.
Lee Myers, SAS Paramedic Clinical Team Leader, said: “Almost 4,000 people in Scotland have an out of hospital cardiac arrest every year. If that person doesn’t receive CPR, the likelihood of them surviving drops by 10% for every minute CPR isn’t administered. We want to empower the public to be confident in their CPR skills and help build a nation of lifesavers.
“Through Restart a Heart Live, we are aiming to train one million people in the UK in how to do hands only CPR and how to use a defibrillator by 2027. So, join us on Wednesday 1st October to support your community and become one of a million lifesavers.”
Register for Restart a Heart Live here: https://www.restartaheart.live/
If your organisation or business would like to become a lifesaving partner of Restart a Heart Live, get in touch with the team at SALFS by emailing hello@savealife.scot
Contact Information
Scottish Ambulance Press Office
sas.press@nhs.scot
Notes to editors
Restart a Heart Live was created by Lee Myers, SAS Paramedic Clinical Team Leader who has trained hundreds of primary and secondary students across the Scottish Borders in CPR skills and defibrillator awareness over his career so far.
- The Scottish Ambulance Service employs over 5000 highly skilled staff.
- We provide an emergency ambulance service to a population of over 5 million people, serving all mainland and island communities.
- Our Patient Transport Service also takes around 1 million patients to and from hospital.
- Each year, we respond to over 1.5 million calls for assistance.
- Over 600,000 of these are emergency and unscheduled incidents.
- We transfer around 90,000 patients between hospitals.
- Our air ambulance service undertakes around 3,500 missions.
- Our ScotSTAR service transfers 2,500 of Scotland's most seriously ill patients each year.
- We are assisted by over 1,200 volunteers, such as our community first responders.
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