Lack of public access defibrillators in colleges and schools
Resuscitation Council received 2 coroners' reports about this hazard between 25 Oct 2016 and 16 Apr 2025.
They came from 2 different coroners in 2 coroner areas. A similar concern was raised again 1 time after the first warning.
A published response was found for 1 of the 1 earlier reports, stating 2 specific actions.
The story, report by report
Spacing grows with the time between reports.
“Evidence at the inquest confirmed that the greatest charice of survival following an arrhythmic out of cardiac arrest is with early defibrillation and CPR.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Resuscitation Council responded, stating 2 specific actions.Response (PDF) ↗Response (PDF) ↗
“The BHF has been a key partner in running national awareness campaigns about the importance of bystander CPR skills on "European Restart a Heart Day" for 3 years and have recently worked with a number of partners including the UK Resuscitation Council, British Red Cross, St John Ambulance and the 14 UK ambulance services to provide resources and support training of 150,000 young people in one day at a number of events across the UK on 18th October 2016”
Stated timescale: 18th October 2016
“We are currently working with the Department of Health to oversee the distribution of £1,000,000 funding for public access defibrillators across communities in the UK.”
- 8 years 6 months laterClosely relatedConfidence 0.90 · higha different coroner
“POINT C: That there is a need for better understanding of the use of defibrillators particularly by lay persons and trained first aid persons”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ - All reports to Resuscitation Council
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2016 → 2025Adam Ankers8 years 6 months after Jane Reason · different coronerClosely relatedConfidence 0.90 · high
Closely relatedConfidence 0.90 · highBoth reports highlight a deficiency in public knowledge and use of defibrillators for cardiac arrest. The earlier report stresses the need for more public access defibrillators and education, while the later report focuses on improving understanding of defibrillator use by lay and trained responders.
Jane Reason · 25 Oct 2016
“Evidence at the inquest confirmed that the greatest charice of survival following an arrhythmic out of cardiac arrest is with early defibrillation and CPR.”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Adam Ankers · 16 Apr 2025
“POINT C: That there is a need for better understanding of the use of defibrillators particularly by lay persons and trained first aid persons”
Original on judiciary.uk ↗ Stated action in the response to the earlier report
“We are currently working with the Department of Health to oversee the distribution of £1,000,000 funding for public access defibrillators across communities in the UK.”
Stated action · timescale: 18th October 2016
“The BHF has been a key partner in running national awareness campaigns about the importance of bystander CPR skills on "European Restart a Heart Day" for 3 years and have recently worked with a number of partners including the UK Resuscitation Council, British Red Cross, St John Ambulance and the 14 UK ambulance services to provide resources and support training of 150,000 young people in one day at a number of events across the UK on 18th October 2016”
Stated action
“We are currently working with the Department of Health to oversee the distribution of £1,000,000 funding for public access defibrillators across communities in the UK.”
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- Each report's concerns were extracted by Nemotron 3 Nano on Nebius Token Factory, each with a quote copied from the report.
- Concerns from reports to Resuscitation Council at least six months apart were compared by meaning (Qwen3 embeddings) and wording (TF-IDF).
- The closest pairs were judged by Nemotron 3 Super with reasoning on. Only identical or closely related, with confidence of at least 0.70, are shown.
- Every quote was checked by code as an exact substring of the original text. Names of staff and family are redacted, and the deceased are named by report title only.
| Link | Meaning | Wording | Judge | Coroner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 → 2025 | 0.80 | 0.12 | Closely related · 0.90 | different |
Judge model: nvidia/nemotron-3-super-120b-a12b. How Nemotron did the work · Full methodology.
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