The new questions will be introduced in tests from next year to give your pupils with theory tests booked time to learn the new content.
This initiative, in collaboration with leading heart health programmes and NHS organisations across the UK, aims to raise awareness and equip drivers with these life-saving skills.
Over 40,000 people experience heart events yearly, and cardiac arrests that happen outside of hospitals have a survival rate of less that 1 on 10. Drivers are often first on the scene in an emergency.
With effective CPR and defibrillator use, survival rates could increase to 70%.