The skills will be taught under the new subject of health education, which is to become compulsory in all state-funded schools – alongside relationships and sex education – from September 2020.
A consultation on curriculum content for the two new statutory subjects closed last year. The proposed guidance stated that as part of health education students by the end of secondary school should know:
While the outcomes of the consultation are yet to be published, the education secretary Damian Hinds said last week that he wanted to see these skills taught.
He pointed to NHS England figures that show a spike in cardiac arrests during the winter months and lower than usual survival rates. Currently fewer than one in 10 people who have a cardiac arrest outside hospital in the UK survive. In countries that teach CPR in schools, survival rates are more than double those of the UK.
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