Workplace Hero: Brighton & Hove Albion F.C - St John Ambulance Everyday Heroes Awards

Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club has an outstanding matchday medical team and 10 defibrillators. The team includes: 34 St John Ambulance volunteers, nine members of the South East Coast Ambulance Service, and three doctors. Since the stadium opened in 2011, they have saved the lives of all five people who have had cardiac arrests. All five football fans have made full recoveries. The odds of surviving a cardiac arrest are just one in 20, the chance of five out of five people surviving is one in 3.2 million. Yet, the fast-acting medical team have managed to defy these odds.

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