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Dehydration in Older People Awareness Week 11th -17th June
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…

