NSW sporting clubs and organisations have the opportunity to apply for their share of $500,000 in funding from the NSW Government for new life-saving defibrillators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The equipment is funded under the NSW Government\u2019s Local Sport Defibrillator Grant Program which provides up to $3,000 to eligible sporting organisations for the purchase of automated external defibrillators at sports facilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Since the Program commenced, more than 2,000 defibrillators have been installed at sports facilities across NSW.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Applications close 27 November 2024 or when funding is exhausted. Minister for Sport Steve Kamper said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWith more than 9,000 out of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in NSW each year, the first few minutes following an incident are critical, and access to a defibrillator can mean the difference between life and death.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe NSW Government wants to ensure people participating in sport have access to this life-saving equipment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe Local Sport Defibrillator Program ensures clubs are equipped to respond to these life-threatening emergencies.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Professor Jamie Vandenberg, Co-deputy Director of the Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute, said:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBeing able to access a defibrillator quickly and easily could be the difference between life and death for someone suffering a sudden cardiac arrest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIn fact, survival rates nearly double if a defibrillator is used in the first few minutes of a cardiac arrest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cCurrently just one in 10 people who have a sudden cardiac arrest outside of hospital will survive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThis is a sobering statistic but it\u2019s one we can change for the better by installing more of these lifesaving devices in sports clubs across the State.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NSW sporting clubs and organisations have the opportunity to apply for their share of $500,000 in funding from the NSW Government for new life-saving defibrillators. The equipment is funded under the NSW Government\u2019s Local Sport Defibrillator Grant Program which provides up to $3,000 to eligible sporting organisations for the purchase of automated external defibrillators at … Continue reading “Life-saving defibrillators available for NSW sports facilities”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nswnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29121,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29120\/revisions\/29121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
For further information, including expanded eligibility criteria, please see the Program guidelines at: https:\/\/www.sport.nsw.gov.au\/grants\/local-sport-defibrillator-grant-program<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n