We have had a busy week providing training to groups of pharmacy staff in Cannock and Tamworth, sponsored by Alk-Abello. The training looked at how pharmacy staff could support patients who use adrenaline auto-injector devices, including the Jext and EpiPen devices, by ensuring that they received adequate counselling when devices are issued, including how to [...]

If you have a severe life-threatening allergy, or anaphylaxis, and use a Jext adrenaline auto-injector, you can now download an App to help manage your condition. The App has training videos and an expiry date reminder feature, as well as storing personal information that you can share with family, friends and work colleagues. The App [...]

Making training meaningful can be challenging, but with a little imagination it is needn’t be. Our brief was to provide HSE approved training, but to make it relevant for the group, as it was felt that ‘an off the shelf’ course would not meet the needs of the group and cover injuries that they were likely to sustain.

We have decided to try a new way of delivering our Emergency First aid at Work course. This course is normally run over 1 day comprising of a 6 hour session. Our new delivery will comprise of delivering the course over a 3 week period have 2 hour sessions per week. Hopefully this will appeal [...]

We held another EFAW course on the 24th January 2013 at the Harborough Innovation Centre today. Local Exercise trainers attendended and not only gained useful first aid techniques and a work place certificate to prove their competency, they also gained 8 CPD points as part of their industry sector REPs accreditation too. Its great to [...]

This September we ran a first aid course for pre-registration pharmacists form community pharmacies across the UK. The course was organised by CamRx, a buying and support network group for community pharmacists, in association with the School of Pharmacy at Hertfordshire University. In total we had 28 people attend the day, which was lively and interactive, [...]

Entrepreneur, former Dragon’s Den investor, and founder of School for Startups, Doug Richard, will lead the independent review into the future of Apprenticeships in England. The Richard Review of Apprenticeships, commissioned by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and the Department of Education, will look at how to build upon the success of Apprenticeships [...]

Stockwood Consulting Ltd has joined forces with Skills Active who are licensed as the Sector Skills Council for Active Leisure, Learning and Well-being. SkillsActive help individuals find career advice, access information on areas such as sport apprenticeships, fitness instructor training or the benefits of registering on REPs, and find practical degrees producing employable graduates. SkillsActive [...]

The BHF is launching a campaign to teach all children CPR in schools. This campaign complements that featuring Vinnie Jones, doing ‘hand-only’ CPR, with the aim of helping more people survive a cardiac arrest outside of a hospital setting. The BHF estimate that 27,000 people die each year from arrest outside of hospital and that [...]

Today was a fun day at the office, well the Angel Hotel, in Market Harborough, running an EFAW course for a group of teachers and staff from St Cuthbert’s Church of England Primary School, in Great Glen, plus other delegates from the Leicester and Corby area. Open courses, such as these are interesting due to [...]

A binman from Middlesborough has received an award from the Royal Humane Society after he saved the life of a toddler. Mr Thompson, who had recently completed a two day first aid course with Middlesborough Council, confessed that he would not have known what to do if he had not been on the course. Mt [...]

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) have cleared an advert showing Vinnie Jones demonstrating ‘hands-only’ CPR following complaints from 20 people. The ASA said that people complained because they said that the advert showed the wrong technique for CPR, however, the ASA said that the advert had been produced with help from the Resuscitation Council (UK) [...]

The HSE have issued the following statement: “From 6 April 2012, subject to Parliamentary approval, RIDDOR’s over three day injury reporting requirement will change. From then the trigger point for reporting injuries to HSE will increase from over three days’ to over seven days’ incapacitation (not counting the day on which the accident happened). However, under EU law, [...]

Prince Harry rushed to the aid of an injured polo player after he was knocked off his horse. As the first on the scene, he gently placed the American business man, Bash Kazi, into the recovery position, potentially saving the Mr Kazi’s life. Actions such as this really help to raise awareness of the importance [...]

We have completed a third year of first aid training for pre-registration pharmacists from the East Midlands NHS Hospitals. The course has been designed to give graduate pharmacists life-saving skills, a requirement of their graduate training programme. The course was arranged and hosted by De Montfort University in Leicester. The course is based on the [...]

We have now moved to Harborough Innovation Centre, a modern facility located on the outskirts of Market Harborough. The Centre has excellent facilities, including spacious training and meeting rooms, along with warm, welcoming staff. We will continue to run courses at venue in the town centre and surrounding districts, as well as at the Innovation [...]

We held our first  12 Hour Paediatric First Aid Course at the Angel Hotel on the 24th and 25th September. Delegates were from the Caterpillar Day Nursery in Market Harborough. Delegates completed the 12 hour course to meet the needs of the day nursery sector in order to fulfill the duty of care requirements that [...]

We held another open course in August at the Angel Hotel in Market Harborough. Although it was a sunny day all our candidates from various local businesses attended eager to learn some new first aid skills. Employers have to risk assess their workplace first aid requirements, and the 1-day Emergency FirstAid at Work (EFAW) qualification [...]

We have spent the last two days delivering an ITC Certificate in Outdoor First Aid course for staff and friends of the Pinnacle Climbing Centre in Northampton. The centre has just celebrated one year of opening and is a thriving and popular venue for climbers of all ages and abilities in the East Midlands. The [...]

We held an Emergency First Aid at Work course today at the Springboard Centre in Coalville. It was the first time we had been to this venue and it proved popular with delegates from two local companies- MP Personal Training and Greasley Electronics Ltd. All delegates thoroughly enjoyed the course and demonstrated excellent first aid skills.  Once [...]

We are pleased to announce that we will now be providing Edexcel courses as well as City & Guilds and ITC first aid courses. More information will follow soon.

We had a great day today delivering an EFAW course at a new venue – The Charnwood Arms, in Coalville. The delegates were all from a local company and they proved to be capable first-aiders, with excellent skills demonstrated by them all. Once again it was encouraging to see a local business taking pro-active steps [...]

SCL has just completed a second year of delivering first aid training to pre-registration pharmacists from hospitals across the East Midlands area, including Northampton, Leicester, Chesterfield, Lincoln, Derby and Nottingham. First aid competencies are part of the syllabus for their training and for two years now SCL has delivered the Health and Safety Approved (HSE) [...]

We had a busy Saturday providing an Emergency First Aid at Work course for coaches and staff from Market Harborough Rugby Club, Leicestershire. The club are keen to ensure that they provide a safe environment for the players of all ages and adhere to the guidance from the RFU for first aid provision. The course [...]

The Resuscitation Council (UK) has published its 2010 guidelines. The following changes in the BLS guidelines for adults have been made to reflect the importance placed on chest compression, particularly good quality compressions, and to attempt to reduce the number and duration of pauses in chest compression: 1. When obtaining help, ask for an automated [...]

A group of 18 pharmacists and their staff attended a one-day emergency first aid course at the Coventry Conference Centre last week. The course was organised in conjunction with Coventry Local Pharmaceutical Committee and sponsored by ALK-Abello, the UK distributor of Epipens. The rationale behind the course is to ensure that pharmacy staff are able [...]

The Government has released its White Paper which outlines fundamental change for the NHS. The paper ‘Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS‘ details how power will be devolved from Whitehall to patients and professionals. The aim of the reforms are to allow professionals more time to focus on improving health outcomes, and to allow patients [...]

Being located between Leicester and Northampton, Market Harborough is an excellent location for us to deliver our Emergency First Aid at Work Courses, as well as first aid training in general. Todays course was an Emergency First Aid at Work course, the new one day Health and Safety Executive (HSE)  approved first aid training course [...]

Many people suffer from severe allergic reactions and at this time of year the potential for wasp and bee stings is a real problem. Those who know they have life-threatening reactions often carry an auto-injector device, such as an EpiPen, but if you have never had to use one, the instructions given to you when [...]

Following requests and feedback from colleagues we have designed a simple self-evaluation test based on the pharmacy contract and professional standards. We are hoping that this simple tool will allow pharmacists to quickly check their knowldge and understanding of the pharmacy contract. Give it a go and let us know if you have any comments [...]