Defibrillators

The Council has installed and is responsible for the on-going maintenance of Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) located at the following sites:

• Thorney Close Action and Enterprise Centre
• Jack Crawford House
• City Hall x 2 (being relocated from the Civic Centre)
• South Hylton House
• Software Centre
• Evolve
• Washington Business Centre
• Hetton Centre
• Skills Academy for Sustainable Manufacturing and Innovation (SASMI)
• ICT Moorside

In addition, AEDs are located at each of the leisure centres in the city that are operated by Everyone Active, as part of the Council's contract to run provision in the city. Whilst not directly maintained by the Council, as Everyone Active is responsible as part of the leisure services contract, these are listed below for information:

• Hetton Sports Centre
• Hetton Community Pool
• Houghton Sports Complex
• Raich Carter Centre
• Silksworth Sports Complex - Ski Centre
• Washington Leisure Centre
• Aquatics Centre

The Council is in the process of refreshing the existing AEDs under its control, as well as installing 2 new AEDs at the Washington Arts Centre and Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens.

Once that refresh has taken place, it will be registering the AEDs on the National Heart Foundation's National Defibrillator Network. The North East Ambulance Service (NEAS) has confirmed that this is the preferred way to ensure there is a complete record of all AEDs in the region. Details can be found at www.thecircuit.uk (opens new window).

At the March 2022 Health and Wellbeing Scrutiny meeting, Councillors and the NEAS representative agreed that all voluntary organisations, companies and individuals who fundraise/install AEDs should be encouraged to register their AEDs to widen the network of registered AEDs - so we would recommend that all interest parties visit www.thecircuit.uk (opens new window) for details of how to do so.