Professor Ken McDonald:

Fundamentally, as Dr. O'Shea said, we all need to be educated from school onwards about how to resuscitate and how to recognise symptoms, as happens in Denmark. As the Deputy pointed out, having a defibrillator at every crossroads would not be practical or effective and I wonder whether it would even be safe. There are figures, which I do have with me, for the critical accumulation of people in a zone where a defibrillator would be of practical use to the population. Beyond the defibrillator, we need to make sure that primary resuscitation skills are more readily available and taught to us all.