Schools will be able to hold stocks of asthma inhalers, containing salbutamol, following changes to the law that will be introduced in October this year. Once the changes in legislation take place, schools will be able to buy inhalers and spacer devices from a pharmaceutical supplier as long as it is not for profit, on…
September 7, 2014 – September 7, 2014 | Register Description: ***This is a private course for St Neots Rugby Club*** This one day first aid course follows the agenda of the HSE approved EFAW course and will result in EFAW certification. The course is contextualised to a rugby club environment and will cover the key…
We have had a busy few days delivering an outdoor first aid course for staff and friends of the Pinnacle Climbing Centre, Northampton. The course was interactive and taught candidates emergency life saving techniques and first aid for people who are in remote places and where help may be a while arriving. We ran the…
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 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,…
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)…