About
A movement, not just an event.
Restart a Heart Live is a free livestream that brings CPR and AED familiarisation directly into schools and communities. It is not a replacement for hands-on training, but a powerful gateway into a wider lifesaving ecosystem: building confidence, starting conversations at home, and helping more people see themselves as potential lifesavers.
Team
Steering group
Dr Gareth Clegg - Resuscitation Research Group
Julie Starling - Save a Life Cymru
James Cant - Resuscitation Council UK
Liam Sagi - Association of Ambulance Chief Executives
Claire Stonier - NHS Charities Together
Rodger Hill - DH9 Foundation
Sally Hancox - Cardiff Met
Michael Allen - Northern Ireland Ambulance Service
Comms group
Dominika Skrocka - Save a Life for Scotland
Paige Patrick - Resuscitation Council UK
Glenda Davies - Save a Life Cymru
Corinne Kemp - Scottish Ambulance Service
Natalie Dixon - NHS Charities Together
Neil Harrison - Scottish Government
Claudia Greene - Northern Ireland Ambulance Service
Content group
Steven Short - Scottish Ambulance Service
Susan Gardner - Save a Life for Scotland
Mathew Bowen - Save a Life Cymru
Tom Webster - E-sgoil
Sarah Blackie - Daysix
Gavin Bryce - Daysix
Funders
Delivery Partners
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Save a Life for Scotland
Save a Life for Scotland is a national partnership helping people across Scotland feel ready to act in a cardiac arrest. As a founding partner in Restart a Heart Live, SALFS supports schools and communities to make CPR and defibrillator awareness simple, accessible and normal.
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Save a Life Cymru
Save a Life Cymru is helping Wales to become a nation of life savers. As an NHS programme, Save a Life Cymru is empowering the population of Wales to perform CPR, as well as improving availability and use of public access defibrillators. By supporting Restart a Heart Live, Wales can engage with accessible, simple, interactive CPR familiarisation.
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Scottish Ambulance Service
The Scottish Ambulance Service is Scotland’s national emergency ambulance service, responding every day to people in cardiac arrest and supporting communities to act before help arrives.
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Association of Ambulance Chief Executives
The Association of Ambulance Chief Executives supports collaboration between ambulance services across the UK. As a Restart a Heart Live partner, AACE helps bring ambulance services together around a shared aim: giving more people the confidence to recognise cardiac arrest, start CPR and use a defibrillator.
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Resuscitation Council UK
Resuscitation Council UK provides trusted guidance and education to improve cardiac arrest survival across the UK. Through Restart a Heart Live, RCUK helps bring clear, evidence-based CPR and defibrillator awareness to schools and communities across the country.
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NHS Charities Together
The Association of NHS Charities, operating as NHS Charities Together, is a network of over 230 charitable organisations that support the devolved National Health Service, their staff, patients, and communities in the United Kingdom.
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DH9 Foundation
Established in July 2024, the DH9 Foundation prioritised placing automatic defibrillators in crucial locations across Dumfries and Galloway. DH9 provide essential, free CPR training to schools and community organisations, with a goal of improving survival rates after out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
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Daysix
Daysix are a team of curious, creative people, who love making a difference. Daysix specialise in delivering digital impact through strategic insight, creative excellence and innovation.
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Northern Ireland Ambulance Service
The Northern Ireland Ambulance Service supports communities throughout Northern Ireland to learn CPR, access defibrillators and respond confidently in the event of a cardiac arrest. Through education, partnership working and public engagement, we strive to improve patient outcomes and increase survival rates.
Supporters
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Healthier Scotland
Healthier Scotland is a core Scottish Government initiative aimed at helping the population live longer, healthier, and more fulfilling lives. It operates alongside Public Health Scotland to tackle deep-rooted health inequalities and improve public wellbeing
Part of a bigger picture
Restart a Heart Live sits within a growing network of interconnected initiatives. All working toward the same goal of increasing survival rates for out-of-home cardiac arrests in Scotland and the UK.
GoodSAM
Restart a Heart Live is about helping more people feel ready to act. GoodSAM is one way to turn that confidence into action. The app connects registered volunteers to nearby emergencies where early CPR and defibrillator use could make a lifesaving difference.
Take the next step: learn the basics, talk about CPR at home, and register with GoodSAM if you are eligible to respond.
Resuscitation Research Group (RRG)
The Resuscitation Research Group t the University of Edinburgh is working to improve survival from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest through research, data and real-world improvement. Through Restart a Heart Live, RRG helps evaluate reach, learning, confidence and impact, making sure the event continues to grow as part of a wider evidence-informed system of community response.
Explore the evidence. Save Lives. Have Fun, Be Awesome.
The Circuit
Restart a Heart Live, helps us understand how easy defibrillators are to use. Save a Life Cymru supports The Circuit, which is the National Defibrillator Network, linked to every ambulance service within the UK. Registering defibrillators on the Circuit, means they are available to support 999 emergency calls.
Put your defibrillator on the map. Visit the website to learn more and register your defibrillator.
Save a Life for Scotland
Restart a Heart Live is one way to help more people feel ready to act in a cardiac arrest. Save a Life for Scotland connects that moment of learning to a wider national movement: helping people across Scotland recognise cardiac arrest, call 999, start CPR and use a defibrillator.
Take the next step: visit the website to learn more, find resources, and discover how you, your school or your community can help save lives.
Save a Life Cymru
Save a Life Cymru’s mission is to empower the population of Wales so they are ready to act and perform CPR when needed. Restart a Heart Live reaches the remotest and most deprived areas of Wales, ensuring CPR familiarisation has no boundaries and is available to all.
Take the next step: visit the website to learn more, find resources, and discover how you, your school or your community can help save lives.
PADmap
Restart a Heart Live helps people understand how CPR and defibrillators can save lives. PADmap helps communities take the next step by showing where public access defibrillators could make the greatest difference, especially in places where cardiac arrest risk is high and access to help is lower.
Find the gaps. Plan better. Save more lives. Visit the website to explore how data can help communities improve access to defibrillators.
Post CPR support
Restart a Heart Live, teaches us how CPR can save a life. Performing CPR, can sometimes be upsetting. Save Life Cymru and key stakeholders, like Resuscitation Council UK, Chest Heart and Stroke Scotland, SADs UK and BHF, have ensured links that offer support are available in one location.
Be prepared, check out the website, we are here if you need us.
Support after cardiac arrest | Resuscitation Council UK