Phoenix : hosts CPR training for colleagues at Telford and Wythall offices…

Phoenix Group, the UK's largest long-term savings and retirement business, is helping colleagues in Telford and Wythall to learn to how to save lives with the help of Midlands Air Ambulance Charity (MAAC), to coincide with World Trauma Day 2021.

World Trauma Day occurs every year on 17 October. This day focuses on the importance of saving and protecting lives during emergencies. It's also a day to provide education on how to avoid traumatic injuries and deaths.

With this in mind, Phoenix Group is welcoming back one of its former UK charity partners, MAAC, to its Telford and Wythall sites to host Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) training for its colleagues.

Cardiac arrest consistently ranks in MAAC's top five reasons for being called out to help people. In the UK, fewer than one in ten people survive an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. In countries where CPR is taught in schools, as many as one in four survive.

Learning CPR could give Phoenix colleagues the tools to save the life of a loved one, colleague or member of the public if they suffer a cardiac arrest. The one-hour sessions are taking place in person at Phoenix's Telford and Wythall offices.

Andy Moss, Phoenix Life CEO and Group Director, Heritage at Phoenix Group said: "In connection to World Trauma Day, we wanted to help our colleagues across our sites learn a new skill that could potentially help save someone's life. We're delighted to be welcoming back our former charity partner, Midlands Air Ambulance Charity - the work they do is vital to keeping our colleagues and our local communities safe. Phoenix's purpose is to help people secure a life of possibilities and we're proud to continue building long-lasting relationships with our charity partners, even after our formal partnership has come to an end."

Ian Jones, air operations manager for Midlands Air Ambulance Charity, said: "World Trauma Day is an important awareness day for us at Midlands Air Ambulance Charity. With more than 63 per cent of the charity's missions being trauma-related, it's important to use this day to shine a light on the enhanced critical care our crews provide, and what bystanders can do to help the patient before medical expertise even arrives. We are glad Phoenix Group is so supportive of the training we offer, which gives their colleagues vital skills which could help save someone's life before we even arrive on scene."

Phoenix has also been providing sponsorship to MAAC (from July 2020), to enable them to deliver Mission Support Training across the Midlands region, for an 18 month period, providing local people with practical advice on CPR and bleed control techniques. In addition, the funding will provide each group that undertakes the free training with a bleed control kit, including gauze and a tourniquet.

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About Phoenix Group

We are the UK's largest long-term savings and retirement business, with £300 billion of assets under administration and c.13 million customers.

We are a growing and sustainable business with a clear purpose - helping people secure a life of possibilities. This means taking responsible and sustainable investment decisions, and using our presence and voice to advocate on behalf of the UK's savers. We understand that our scale and expertise means that we have an important role to play for our customers, colleagues and our communities.

As life expectancy continues to increase and the pension landscape continues to shift, we will continue to be a safe and dependable ally in the journey to and through retirement for millions of customers, by providing the right guidance and products, at the right time, to support the right choices. We offer a broad range of products for people across all stages of the savings life cycle.

Our strategy focuses on delivering long term, sustainable value and, to fulfil our purpose, focuses on five key areas to ensure we respond to changing customer needs, manage our capital position well, create value, inspire our people, and put sustainability at the heart of our business.

Phoenix is a FTSE 100 company and we feature in the FTSE 100 ESG Select Index. In 2020 we committed to our operations being net zero carbon by 2025 and our investment portfolios by 2050. We are playing an active role in helping to build back better and greener as we invest for the future. We are a Living Wage Employer and recognised as a Carer Positive Exemplary for offering the best support to colleagues who are carers.

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