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# Lichfield MP backs calls for defibrillators to be installed at grassroots football clubs
- URL: https://lichfieldlive.co.uk/lichfield-mp-backs-calls-for-defibrillators-to-be-installed-at-grassroots-football-clubs/
- Published: 2021-06-19T11:27:43.000Z
- Updated: 2021-06-19T11:27:46.000Z
- Description: Lichfield’s MP has joined calls for defibrillators to be installed at football clubs across the country.
- Author: Lichfield Live
- Tags: Health, Politics, Sport, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-07-22 19:15, News

![Defibrillator](https://storage.ghost.io/c/e3/90/e390c3da-0866-4d2a-8ffe-ca4999d7ce1c/content/images/lichfieldlive-co-uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/defibrillator.jpg)

Lichfield’s MP has joined calls for defibrillators to be installed at football clubs across the country.

A number of MPs from across the political spectrum have urged the Football Association to fund the life-saving equipment rather than just providing a discount.

The calls come after the cardiac arrest suffered by Denmark international Christian Eriksen during the European Championships this month.

> “I have joined Mary Foy, the Labour MP for Durham, calling on the Football Association to provide additional funding and speed up the installation of this life saving equipment.  
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> “Cardiac arrests like Christian Eriksen’s are thankfully very rare – around one in 50,000 among sportspeople.  
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> “But as we witnessed, they do occur and are far more common amongst spectators.  
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> “The Denmark v Finland game also highlighted how crucial it is that there is pitchside access to life-saving medical equipment whether that be at the European Championships in Copenhagen, an under 15 game in Burntwood, or a walking football match in Lichfield.”  
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> Michael Fabricant MP

Mr Fabricant said it was crucial that grassroots clubs had access to both equipment and training to ensure they could save a life if the need arose.

![Michael Fabricant MP](https://storage.ghost.io/c/e3/90/e390c3da-0866-4d2a-8ffe-ca4999d7ce1c/content/images/lichfieldlive-co-uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/michaelfabricant.jpg)

Michael Fabricant MP

> “The response, especially by Danish captain Simon Kjaer and match referee Anthony Taylor, showed the need for the expansion of the FA’s Emergency Aid course to become compulsory to a delegation of players, coaches and referees at each grassroots club and county FA up and down the country.  
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> “The course aims to provide participants with the knowledge, practical skills and confidence to be able to attend a conscious or unconscious casualty – these were skills we saw to life-saving effect on the pitch in Copenhagen.  
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> “Expanding participation in the Emergency Aid course will help more people feel comfortable in their skills of CPR and other life-saving procedures.  
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> “But equipment is needed too.”  
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> Michael Fabricant MP