The current spell of sunny weather is an outstanding opportunity to raise The NACC National Dehydration in Older People Awareness week. This year’s awareness week June 11th -17th is almost upon us, and this a worthwhile opportunity to raise awareness in the health and social care sector. The Office of National Statistics reported that in 2010 (latest stats available) 155 patients died in hospital from dehydration, and 48 from malnutrition. Dehydrations contributed to another 812 deaths, and malnutrition to a further 31 deaths although these were not listed as the primary cause of death. In care homes in the period …
Epilepsy facts and figures
To understand Epilepsy more it is good to know the scale of the problem and who is affected so we have detailed some facts on this condition from the data from the Joint Epilepsy Council. Epilepsy can affect anyone of any age in any walk of life and there are over 40 different types of Epilepsy consisting of at least 29 syndromes. An individual can have more than one type of seizure type. There are approximately 60% of people with tonic clonic seizures, 20% have complex partial, 12% mixed tonic clonic/complex, 3% simple partial and less than 5% absence seizures, …
Free Video Online First Aid Course for Every School Child Site Now Live
Help us spread the word, we have launched a free video first aid course for every school child. We need to get the word out to schools and clubs to sign up for free. See www.studentfirstaid.co.uk and “like” our Facebook page at Facebook.com/studentfirstaid Schools can sign up and choose online only or we can offer a practical session as well. First aid is a very important skill for all children to learn and completing an online course will expand first aid into schools. If a practical module is needed contact us and we will arrange a local instructor to visit your school. It works …
201 Hospital admissions a day due to Asthma
National Asthma week this week and Asthma UK state that 201 people who will be hospitalised a day because of their asthma. That’s one every 7 minutes! They’ll be fighting for breath as their chest gets tighter and tighter and they panic, scared of what might happen if they don’t get to hospital in time. Asthma can be life threatening and prompt care is vital. For more information on Asthma and how you can help Asthma Research go to the Asthma Research UK website.
50 Plus First Aid – an online first aid course now live
The first aid training needed for the 50 plus age group are different to that on commercial courses. They are not able to complete “text book” style techniques so we have launched a video based online first aid course aimed at making first aid simple and accessible to everyone. Visit the site at www.pro50plus.co.uk The course covers prevention as well as dealing with a variety of accidents and illnesses. We even cover the basics of treating your pet if they have an accident. Anyone can log on and buy this course and they can start and stop the training to …
Anaphylaxis Training Course Online
We have launched an online Anaphylaxis course at www.proanaphylaxis.co.uk The course covers the use of Jext, EpiPen and Anapen auto-injectors and comes with free student manual and other downloads as well as the usual other features of our online sites.
Free PDF Accident Book to all students
We have added a free PDF accident book to download to all students of online and classroom courses. We will be adding more downloads to different courses soon. You can access the accident book and other downloads by clicking the student manual link under the red bubble top right when you login.
Are first-aiders allowed to give tablets and medication to casualties?
The HSE guidance for First aid at work does not include giving tablets or medicines to treat illness. The only exception to this is where aspirin is used when giving first aid to a casualty with a suspected heart attack, in accordance with currently accepted first-aid practice. It is recommended that tablets and medicines should not be kept in the first-aid box. Some workers carry their own medication that has been prescribed by their doctor (eg an inhaler for asthma). If an individual needs to take their own prescribed medication, the first-aider’s role is generally limited to helping them to …
New Classroom course – BLS for Healthcare Professionals
We have added a variation on our BLS course to aim it at Healthcare Professionals. You can find an instructor by looking at www.procourses.co.uk or phone us on 01206 585068 or email on support@protrainings.uk If you do not have time for a classroom course then sign up online and complete our Basic Life Support course. You can complete this video based course at your own pace and have access to the site for 8 months. As with all our class and online courses, you will receive a free a free PDF student manual, weekly video refresher emails and reminders when …
You can call the emergency services by text if you are hard of hearing
The emergencySMS service lets deaf, hard of hearing and speech-impaired people in the UK send an SMS text message to the UK 999 service where it will be passed to the police, ambulance, fire rescue, or coastguard. Simply by sending an SMS message to 999 you can call for help and the emergency services will be able to reply to you. You can register at http://www.emergencysms.org.uk/registering_your_mobile_phone.php
Youth First Aid
At ProTrainings we have now launched a new classroom course aimed at teaching children basic first aid skills called Youth First Aid. It is very important that children learn first aid as they often are put in position where they need to use the life skills. The course is flexible and can be aimed at all ages. For more information email support@protrainings.uk or visit student first aid.
RIDDOR’s over-three-day injury reporting requirement has changed
As of 6 April 2012, RIDDOR’s over-three-day injury reporting requirement has changed. The trigger point has increased from over three days’ to over seven days’ incapacitation (not counting the day on which the accident happened). Incapacitation means that the worker is absent or is unable to do work that they would reasonably be expected to do as part of their normal work. Employers and others with responsibilities under RIDDOR must still keep a record of all over-three day-injuries – if the employer has to keep an accident book, then this record will be enough. The deadline by which the over-seven-day injury must …