Cardiac arrest victims in this part of UK face a nine-minute wait for defibrillator

John Martin (right) was saved by a defibrillator and quick-thinking passerby Emma (Image: Getty/John Martin) People suffering a cardiac arrest face a potentially deadly nine-minute wait for a defibrillator in the worst-served parts of the UK, analysis reveals. More than 92,000 publicly accessible devices have been registered on The Circuit, the national network used to direct 999 callers to their nearest one. But data released by the British Heart Foundation shows coverage remains worryingly low in some postcode sectors.

Areas with the worst supply included Milton in Glasgow, where the average distance to a defibrillator was 579 metres - a return journey of around nine minutes and seven seconds at a slow run. function loadOvpScript(){let el=document.createElement('script');el.

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