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  • 5 July 2021â–ª1.4 minâ–ª
    Registering your defibrillator and location

    So you have a defibrillator in your community now – you raised the funds, purchased the cabinet and defib – that was the hard bit! Now, you need to make [...]

  • 26 May 2021â–ª3.1 minâ–ª
    Q&A With Lynne Baird #ControlTheBleed

    We have been working in Partnership with Lynne Baird, who set up the Daniel Baird foundation, for just over 6 months now. Lynne set up the charity in memorial to [...]

  • 19 May 2021â–ª2.2 minâ–ª
    Stop the Bleed Day

    Thursday 20th May 2021 marks Stop The Bleed Day, a day of awareness of the need for resources and training to react to catastrophic bleed injuries. In recognition of this [...]

  • 26 April 2021â–ª2.1 minâ–ª
    Responsible recycling and servicing

    The positive about metal defib cabinets is that metal is infinitely recyclable.  This means that having served as a cabinet for a large number of years, it can be recycled [...]

  • 29 March 2021â–ª1.8 minâ–ª
    Different ways to finance a defibrillator & AED cabinet

    There are many ways to finance a defibrillator cabinet in your community, or even a bleed control kit, and we want to make it as easy as possible for you [...]

  • 22 March 2021â–ª2 minâ–ª
    Introducing Our New Combined Defibrillator & Bleed Control Cabinet

    Our new 2-in-1 cabinet! We’ve recently launched a defib and bleed control cabinet and we are already seeing some significant interest in it.   The new cabinet allows communities to have [...]

  • 18 March 2021â–ª2.9 minâ–ª
    The Best Defibrillators Available to Buy in the UK

    If you’re looking to buy a defibrillator, you may be wondering which one best suits your environment and needs. Each defibrillator has different features, so understanding how they vary can [...]

  • 22 February 2021â–ª1.8 minâ–ª
    The Importance of Basic Life Support & AED training

    Every year in the UK, 60,000 cardiac arrests occur outside of hospitals. Less than 10% of people experiencing cardiac arrests in the community survive. Yet survival rates in the community, [...]

  • 25 January 2021â–ª1.9 minâ–ª
    Knife crime – spending budgets on preventing deaths

    Startling UK statistics on knife crime Whilst the Home Office reported a drop in Knife and Offensive weapon offences resulting in a caution or sentence of 20% in 2020 vs [...]

  • 4 January 2021â–ª1.6 minâ–ª
    Remote installation of your defib cabinet available

    If you have the budget for a defib and cabinet, but no one to install it, do not fear!  Here at Turtle we can not only supply the defib and [...]

  • 30 November 2020â–ª2 minâ–ª
    Bleed Kits For Catastrophic Bleed Injuries

    Even with a pandemic hitting 2020 hard for over 8 months of the year, knife crime is still on the rise.  During the second week of lockdown at the end [...]

  • 16 November 2020â–ª2.1 minâ–ª
    Installing the First Bleed Control Cabinet in the UK

    The first ever Bleed cabinet and kit installed in Birmingham Designed to prevent people from bleeding to death while paramedics race to the scene, the UK’s first bleed control cabinet [...]