CADEY Campaign celebrates contacting every community without a'¯defibrillator'¯
Mon 17th September 2018
The CADEY (Community'¯Access Defibrillators for East Yorkshire) campaign'¯has today met for its monthly meeting to discuss and continue'¯its'¯work'¯to'¯improve'¯survival'¯rates'¯in East'¯Yorkshire'¯from'¯cardiac'¯arrest.'¯At the'¯meeting the committee celebrated the completion of a massive step in the campaign; contacting every parish council in the Beverley and Holderness constituency asking them to become a ‘CADEY Council’ by installing a defibrillator in all villages they are responsible for.'¯
Head of the campaign'¯Beverley and Holderness'¯MP Graham Stuart commented:'¯
“It is fantastic that our campaign to improve survival rates from cardiac arrests in East Yorkshire has completed this step and that we are now ready'¯to provide support'¯to our parishes with installing these'¯life saving'¯devices.'¯
“I hope'¯all of'¯the parishes in my constituency will sign up to'¯be'¯a ‘CADEY Council’ and help'¯provide full coverage of defibrillators.'¯Our local parish councils and those who run them already do incredible work in our communities to better the lives of all'¯residents.'¯So'¯it is no surprise that many of them already have AEDs installed. However, for every single person in our area to have access to one should the worst happen, we absolutely'¯must'¯have them in every single'¯community.'¯
“Even without full coverage we have already seen'¯defibrillators'¯saving the lives of local'¯residents, so imagine how many more people we could potentially save if every single community has a community access AED.'¯
“Some'¯local campaigners have already taken the'¯initiative'¯and raised money for'¯defibrillators'¯for their communities. For example, Walkington village girls Amelia and Jessica’s'¯‘Team Stand Tall’'¯campaign for an extra village defib for their playing fields and CADEY team member Jordan Moor who has raised over £25,000 for village defibs. They and all those who have campaigned for the access to defibrillators we already enjoy have done truly impressive work.'¯
“But as a community we can and must do more until everyone has access to a defibrillator regardless of where they are.'¯
“I look forward to taking the CADEY campaign forward by working with our parish'¯councils to achieve full coverage of these increasingly important devices”.
Picture attached from left to right – Nick Middleton of the SMILE Foundation, Paul Downey of Beverley, Graham Stuart MP, Dr Andrew Milner of Help For Health, Warren Bostock of Yorkshire Ambulance Service, Jordan Moor (fundraiser)
