Defibrillator Training

It is inevitable that with an estimated two million visitors a year to the Windsor Great Park and The Royal Landscape that there will be incidents with members of the public being taken ill. We have numerous first aiders and now have 15 employees (park wardens and other strategic staff) trained in the provision of resuscitation through the deployment of AEDs (automated external defibrillation) the vital gap between the arrival of the emergency services and a person falling ill can be breached and chances of their recovery increased.

The programme has been running for a year and it is encouraging to have received the following feedback from Richard Davies, the County Community Responder Manager for the Royal Berkshire Ambulance Service: "We are extremely pleased with the way our partnership has benefited those requiring emergency assistance in the Great Park. Although thankfully a rare occurrence, when called to do so the wardens respond in a timely fashion and provide high quality lifesaving care prior to the arrival of an ambulance."