Over half of all Britons don't know that if someone has a heart attack they should immediately call an ambulance. They didn't know that a machine called a defibrillator was needed to restart the heart.
Defibrillators give an electric shock to the heart which jolts it back into life.
The British Heart Foundation says between 200 and 250 British people die of heart attacks every day because they do not get to hospital in time to have defibrillation. Although heart massage and the kiss of life can help people who have heart attacks, without defibrillation they can only survive for an average of eight minutes. The British Heart Foundation is launching a 1m Start a Heart appeal to raise money to provide 400 defibrillators to trained operators in the community. It wants responsible members of the community, such as police and GPs to be trained to use defibrillators. It could make the difference between life and death.