Bardsey has two defibrillators – one at the Village Hall and one at the Sports Club – both of them are registered on the national database know as ‘The Circuit’.
The Parish Council check that these are emergency ready every 2 weeks or so. In the meantime, if someone calls 999 for details of how to get into the defibrillator safety cabinet – the 999 operator assumes it will be used and takes the defibrillator off the national register. This generates an email to the Parish Councillor responsible for looking after the defibrillators to tell us it is out of service. We then check the unit concerned and in most cases we find the defibrillator in place and fully functional. We then update the national register (The Circuit) to say that the defibrillator is emergency ready and it is put back on the system. It will then appear once again on the 999 operator’s ‘available’ list if someone requests its use.
The Parish Council, for confidentiality reasons, does not get any further information from the emergency services about the circumstances of the request we just go and check the defibrillator and make sure that it is available for use again as soon as possible.