After campaigning for emergency life-saving skills to be compulsory in schools, one of the town’s MPs has been made honorary president of the Swindon branch of the British Heart Foundation.
Justin Tomlinson, MP for North Swindon, was invited to take up the post at the end of May following an article in the Adver.
Mr Tomlinson said he was very proud to have been given the opportunity.
“I will be pro-active in my support. I have a long standing commitment to supporting the activities of the British Heart Foundation because of my family’s history with heart disease,” he said.
“We need emergency life-saving skills in schools so we can equip the next generation of lifesavers. I lost my father at the age of 12 and I was the one who found him and needed life-saving skills.
“Thirty thousand people a year collapse and only 10 per cent survive and leave hospital. That is why I have been pushing so much on the emergency life saving skills,” he said.
Mr Tomlinson also believes there should be more cookery lessons in schools and better food labelling so consumers can make a more informed choice. “Through my work in parliament I have repeatedly said the need to tackle childhood obesity and a greater provision of access to open space for all ages so people can access a healthy living,” he said.
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