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EYFS First Aid & Safeguarding Update Sept 2025

EYFS First Aid & Safeguarding Update Sept 2025

by Emma Hammett | Oct 28, 2025 | Essential First Aid, First aid for Schools, First Aid Updates, General First Aid, Uncategorized | 0 comments

EYFS Safeguarding and First Aid Requirement Changes as from 1st September 2025 The early years foundation stage (EYFS) statutory framework is mandatory for all early years settings. It sets the standards that all early years providers must meet to ensure that children...
A New Way of Rolling Someone into the Recovery Position

A New Way of Rolling Someone into the Recovery Position

by Emma Hammett | Feb 26, 2025 | Essential First Aid, First Aid Updates, General First Aid, Uncategorized | 2 comments

First aid courses normally teach two different ways of rolling someone into the recovery position. The first is aimed at someone who is unconscious and breathing, and the other is for someone unconscious and breathing but who is suspected of having a spinal injury....
Water Beads – Urgent Product Recall by the OPSS

Water Beads – Urgent Product Recall by the OPSS

by Emma Hammett | Sep 24, 2024 | First Aid for Babies and Children, First Aid Updates | 0 comments

  Water beads are particularly popular with small children and can make an excellent present, but the Office for Product Safety and Standards has issued a Product Safety Alert, warning that water beads create a serious danger of choking and suffocation of...
7 Illnesses That Pharmacists Can Now Diagnose and Treat

7 Illnesses That Pharmacists Can Now Diagnose and Treat

by Emma Hammett | Feb 5, 2024 | First Aid Updates | 0 comments

To try and relieve the pressure on General Practice, the Government has introduced the ability for Pharmacists, as trained health professionals, to have a greater input in the prevention and treatment of certain illnesses. The Pharmacy First scheme is now allowing...
Calling 999 on a Smartphone – Tips and Tricks

Calling 999 on a Smartphone – Tips and Tricks

by Emma Hammett | Aug 31, 2023 | Essential First Aid, First Aid Tips and Hacks, First Aid Updates | 0 comments

Tips and Tricks for calling 999 on a smartphone! Calling 999 isn’t always as straight forward as it seems. However, this article will provide some top tips and tricks on how to make calling 999 that little bit easier, from using different smartphones to how to...
What to do whilst waiting for an Ambulance

What to do whilst waiting for an Ambulance

by Emma Hammett | Dec 12, 2022 | First Aid Updates, Uncategorized | 2 comments

We are continually hearing how the NHS is struggling to cope at the moment. The UK’s ambulance service is under more pressure than ever. You are therefore extremely likely to be waiting for an ambulance for a lot longer than the target of 8 minutes. Even in a...
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