Footnotes

• Handling editor Ellen Weber

• Contributors Both authors conceived the idea, wrote the letter together and revised it. EJP liaised with the Minister for Education to seek official governmental position on cardiopulmonary resuscitation teaching in schools.

• Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

• Competing interests None declared.

• Patient consent for publication Not required.

• Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.