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Francis Duku: Screening is crucial to keeping us all safe

There are more than 30,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests in the UK every year – the survival rate is less than one in ten.

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The Non-League Football Paper Team
20 April 2025

There are more than 30,000 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests in the UK every year – the survival rate is less than one in ten.
This is my first of a new regular column for The Non-League Paper and I’m not sure any other will open with such a startling fact.
Early CPR and defibrillation can significantly improve survival chances.
It’s a hot issue in football at the moment with a big drive for awareness on the back of Luton Town’s Tom Lockyer, also a National League play-off winner at Bristol Rovers, surviving a cardiac arrest on the pitch for his club.

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