Martin Johnson visits Brookvale and Groby learning campus

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Created: Wednesday, 04 December 2013 12:42

Written by christine

TEACHING LIFE SAVING SKILLS TO ALL TEENAGERS

English former rugby union player Martin Johnson CBE, Dr Doug Skehan, Dr Mike Ferguson and Mr Charles Poole visited Brookvale and Groby Learning Campus on Tuesday 3 December 2013 to promote their campaign to get a defibrillator into every secondary school in Leicester and Leicestershire, and to teach life saving skills to ALL teenagers in Leicester and Leicestershire secondary schools as well.

This campaign is a joint project with the Joe Humphries Memorial Trust and Leicester’s hospitals and is being led by Dr Doug Skehan from Glenfield Hospital.

Students were interested to hear that Martin Johnson is backing this campaign partly because he knew Joe Humphries and his family personally.  Joe Humphries was a Leicestershire school pupil who sadly died last year as a result of cardiac arrest.

Dr Doug Skehan highlighted to some of Brookvale High School and Groby Community College students (pictured above) that in the UK we only save a third of those who could be saved by emergency action, and we would be able to improve survival rates by teaching life saving skills in school that will last a life time.  This is the first such project in the country and could become a blueprint for other counties to follow.

Ambassadors from all Leicester and Leicestershire schools will be invited to attend a launch event at the Leicester Tigers ground on 28 February 2014. 

Thank you to all our students who took part and thank you to Dr Doug Skehan, Martin Johnson and the team.

Brookvale and Groby Learning Campus