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Tory ex-army trauma surgeon's bill would teach children to stop 'life-threatening bleeding' after stabbings

Tory ex-army trauma surgeon's bill would teach children to stop 'life-threatening bleeding' after stabbings

Conservative MP Neil Shastri-Hurst, a former British Army major and trauma co-ordinator at Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, is pushing a bill to teach schoolchildren how to treat catastrophic bleeding from stabbings, crashes or terror attacks. His Emergency and Life-Saving Skills (Schools) Bill is due to be debated in Parliament today but will need government backing to pass. The proposal would build on existing CPR teaching already embedded in the curriculum.

Shastri-Hurst warns that ambulances average eight and a half minutes — but a person can bleed out in four.

Harvey Willgoose's mother Caroline, whose 15-year-old son was fatally stabbed at his Sheffield school in 2025, called the bill 'a really good idea' and says things are 'moving forward.'

The bill would train pupils to recognise 'life-threatening bleeding' and administer emergency treatment, boosting what Shastri-Hurst calls 'national resilience.'

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