Summary of City Corporation External Automated Defibrillator (EAD) Provision from Survey Note: Excludes City of London Police
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Appendix 2: Summary of City Corporation External Automated Defibrillator (EAD) Provision from Survey Note: Excludes City of London Police. Self-reply survey results (December 2018). Department / Location Persons responsible for Numbers of AED Use of defibrillator? Comments AED Barbican Centre Audience Experience 2 No department [Named manager] City Surveyors Security team (Guildhall); 2 - Guildhall Yes (at Guildhall) See also provision at W Premises Controller / Wharf under Town Clerks Building Manager (W 1 – W Wharf (Occupational Health) Wharf) City of London School Named persons 2 (school / sports ground) No (Boys) City of London School Named person 1 No (Girls) City of London Freemens Medical team 5 No School Built Environment (West Drainage Inspectors 3 (2 mobile / 1 office) No Provision based on work Smithfield) environment / tasks undertaken Children’s and All staff / Named manager 1 – Golden Lane Estate No Artizan Street AED (*1) Community Services Office had dead battery. 1 – Lauderdale Tower Reportedly old unit and lobby replacement batter could not be sourced. Guildhall School Facilities department 3 No Markets & Consumer Named persons 2 – Smithfield Market Yes (at Smithfield and Billingsgate are seeking to Protection 3 – New Spitalfields Billingsgate) update / augment 1 – Port Health provision. 1 - Billingsgate Page 1 of 2 Appendix 2: Summary of City Corporation External Automated Defibrillator (EAD) Provision from Survey Note: Excludes City of London Police. Self-reply survey results (December 2018). Department / Location Persons responsible for Numbers of AED Use of defibrillator? Comments AED Mansion House and Named person (MH) / 1 – Central Criminal Court Yes (at Mansion House) Central Criminal Court Security Team (CCC) 1 – Mansion House Open Spaces Named persons 5 – Hampstead Heath Yes (at Parliament Hill Swimming is a ‘higher (ponds / lido plus heath Lido; Kenwood Ladies risk’ activity constabulary) pond; on the Heath) The Commons have an 1 – Keats House AED manged by third party at Burnham 1 – Tower Bridge Beeches Town Clerks Named persons 1 – London Metropolitan No 1 W Wharf defibrillator is Archive under control of 1 – W Wharf Occupational Health the other under City Surveyors (see above) Confirmed totals / Most sites report to 39 Reported use at ‘higher See Appendix 1 – further comments have staff specifically risk’ sites: trained to use the AED. Mixture of makes and Large number of First Aid Needs Both RC(UK) and HSE models from different persons using facility; Assessment for AEDs guidance recommend that suppliers. For example, risk of cardiac arrest “it is essential to have Hampstead Heath (OS) occurring at the site people on site who are have 5 HeartStart FRx due to the profile of willing to be trained to use AEDs which are robust users (e.g. older); the AED” but that “it is the and suitable for external type of work activities view of the Resuscitation locations and can be or premises (e.g. Council (UK) that the use ‘switched’ with a key for swimming) of AEDs should not be treating children < 8 years restricted to trained old. personnel”. Page 1 of 2.