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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…

