That the Parliament welcomes the launch of the Scottish Ambulance Service’s new Registration to Resuscitation campaign; notes that the campaign aims to encourage community organisations and individuals to register their public access defibrillators on a new website, pad.scottishambulance.com; considers that, while there is no legal obligation to register defibrillators, it makes sense for the ambulance service to know the location of each community defibrillator so that when someone calls 999 the service knows where the nearest defibrillator is if it is required before they arrive; encourages defibrillator custodians in community centres, sports facilities, transport services and all other places where they are sited to register their defibrillators; pays tribute to the continuing good work of charitable organisations in Lothian and across Scotland, including the Jamie Skinner Foundation and St John Scotland, for providing defibrillators in communities, and wishes the Registration to Resuscitation campaign every success in helping to empower the ambulance service to save more lives of people who have a cardiac arrest.
Supported by:
Jeremy Balfour, Bill Bowman, Alexander Burnett, Donald Cameron, Jackson Carlaw, Finlay Carson, Peter Chapman, Alex Cole-Hamilton, Maurice Corry, Murdo Fraser, Kenneth Gibson, Maurice Golden, Christine Grahame, Jamie Greene, Rachael Hamilton, Alison Harris, Liam Kerr, Bill Kidd, John Lamont, Gordon Lindhurst, Dean Lockhart, Fulton MacGregor, John Mason, Ivan McKee, Stuart McMillan, Pauline McNeill, Margaret Mitchell, Edward Mountain, Oliver Mundell, Ash Regan, Douglas Ross, Anas Sarwar, John Scott, Liz Smith, Colin Smyth, Alexander Stewart, Ross Thomson, David Torrance, Annie Wells, Sandra White, Brian Whittle