The HSE have stated that if your FAW certificate expires after the 19th March 2020 then you can have a three month extension provided you have tried to access requalification training and explain why you could not.
Read More »HSE Issues Guidance on First Aid during the COVID-19 PandemicWhy we should stop teaching RICE Before the early 1960’s ice simply wasn’t used in medicine, or first aid. Then on the 23 May 1962, an event occurred that would change medicine for ever. A 12 yr old boy, Eddie Knowles, tried to jump onto… Read More »The Ice age is Melting
We regularly get asked why the techniques and standards taught in our courses do not always conform with the advice given in the First Aid Manual (10th Edition), written by the Voluntary Aid Societies (VAS) i.e St John, St Andrews and the British Red Cross.… Read More »Why do your courses not follow the advice of “The First Aid Bible”?
The UK Resucitation Council have issued a statement on performing CPR during the pandemic while still keeping yourself safe.
Read More »Covid-19 CPR GuidanceAll Emerade auto-injectors have been recalled by the manufacturer. There is a fault in one component of the auto-injector believed to cause some pens* to fail to activate and deliver adrenaline. If you know anyone with Emerade pens advise them to see their GP to… Read More »Emerade Recall Alert
We have just launched our new Mental Health in the Workplace Courses These courses, designed by NHS mental health professionals, focus on what you should actually do to help someone in a mental health crisis. They address problems with existing courses and we believe are… Read More »Mental Health in the Workplace Courses
The above statement is a bit misleading . At Marlin splinting never was removed from First Aid at Work training, but it seems that for many other organisations splinting protocols simply aren’t being taught. “Call the ambulance” has become the ‘First Aid Protocol’.
Read More »Why was splinting removed from First Aid at Work?
On a recent course we received criticism for teaching tourniquets in First Aid at Work. It seems that many organisations, including some of the Voluntary Aid Societies still won’t teach them. This blog will look at the reasons we do teach tourniquets and hopefully debunk a few myths along the way.
Read More »Tourniquets: Debunking the MythA graduate in Holland has invented the ‘Ambulance Drone’. Bypassing traffic jams, this can can get to an emergency scene 10 times quicker than an ambulance and has a portable defibrillator on board.
Read More »Defibrillator Drones – Ambulance of the Future