Keith Sleightholm

Joined: 27 May 2025
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Courses, first aid, Infection Control, online learning, ProTrainings.uk

Course of the week – Basic Life Support for Dentists

This course covers Basic Life Support skills and includes skills for adults, children and infants for dentists and people working in dental practices. The course includes: safety, precautions, initial assessment, recovery position, CPR, compression only CPR, CPR handover, choking, and…

Keith Sleightholm
25 May 2014

first aid, Pet First Aid

MRSA: Hospital superbug ‘shared with pets’

Pets can harbour the hospital superbug MRSA and it can pass between pets and their owners, research suggests. Cats and dogs have the same strain of the bacterium as people, genetic tests show. MRSA may spread between animals at veterinary…

Keith Sleightholm
23 May 2014

first aid, Food Hygiene

Most patients ‘right to go to A&E’

Efforts to redirect patients away from busy A&E departments will not work, doctors have said – as a new study shows most need to be seen there. The College of Emergency Medicine review of more than 3,000 patients found only…

Keith Sleightholm
22 May 2014

50 Plus First Aid, Courses, first aid, First Aid at Work, online learning, ProTrainings.uk

Course of the week – Anaphylaxis

This course is aimed at anyone who requires a course in anaphylaxis awareness. The course covers the use of Epi-Pens, Emerade and Jext as well as recognition of signs, treatment, concerns and activating the EMS as well as care for…

Keith Sleightholm
18 May 2014

Courses, first aid, online learning, ProTrainings.uk

Adrenaline Auto-injectors to be reviewed by the European Medicines Agency

The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has started a review of adrenaline auto-injectors, which are used as first-aid treatment of anaphylaxis (severe allergic reactions) prior to calling for emergency medical assistance. This review was requested by the UK medicines agency, the…

Keith Sleightholm
16 May 2014

Courses, Fire Safety, first aid, First Aid at Work, online learning, ProTrainings.uk

Course of the week – Infection Control

Infection Control Training is a mandated training program for any employee, self-employed person, or safety representative who may be exposed to blood or other body fluids. This course is available online or from one of our approved instructors. It is designed to…

Keith Sleightholm
11 May 2014

50 Plus First Aid, first aid, online learning, ProTrainings.uk, Student First Aid

Viral Meningitis Awareness Week

This is the second Viral Meningitis Awareness week, and this year we are asking everyone to be #VocalAboutViral. It’s all about getting people to talk about the disease, its symptoms and its after-effects. Up to 6,000 people each year…

Keith Sleightholm
7 May 2014

50 Plus First Aid, Courses, first aid, First Aid at Work, online learning

National Review of Asthma Deaths Released

World Asthma Day 2014, the most far reaching National Review of Asthma Deaths has been published. Shockingly it shows almost half of deaths could have been avoided with better routine care. It has identified prescribing errors of a horrifying scale…

Keith Sleightholm
7 May 2014

50 Plus First Aid, Courses, Fire Safety, first aid, online learning, ProTrainings.uk

Course of the week – Fire Safety level 2

This level 2 course is aimed at anyone who requires a course as a Fire Warden or a Fire Marshal. The course covers the latest fire safety regulations and the roles and duties of employees and their responsibilities on Fire…

Keith Sleightholm
4 May 2014

50 Plus First Aid, Courses, Fire Safety, first aid, First Aid at Work, Food Hygiene, Heath and Safety, Infection Control, online learning, Pet First Aid, ProTrainings.uk

Updates to student manuals

We have made some changes to most of the free student manuals that come with all ProTrainings courses whether classroom, blended or video online. You can download these and many other documents and links from your training dashboard (where you…

Keith Sleightholm
27 April 2014