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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...
Why knowing first aid is so vital – and how we can help you to learn it

Why knowing first aid is so vital – and how we can help you to learn it

by Emma Hammett | Sep 11, 2025 | General First Aid, Uncategorized | 0 comments

World First Aid Day was introduced by the International Red Cross Red Crescent Movement in 2000. It is a global opportunity to raise public awareness of how first aid can save lives in everyday and crisis situations. This year on World First Aid Day, the theme is...
Breaks, Sprains and Dislocations – What you need to know

Breaks, Sprains and Dislocations – What you need to know

by Emma Hammett | Aug 26, 2025 | First aid for Schools, General First Aid | 1 comment

We all know someone who has experienced a break, sprain or dislocation. From skiing, slipping whilst running round the side of a swimming pool, trampolining … or just falling badly, they happen all the time, and they are tricky injuries to avoid. Whilst breaks...
Seven top tips to help you control your asthma during hay fever season

Seven top tips to help you control your asthma during hay fever season

by Emma Hammett | Jul 30, 2025 | General First Aid, Summer Blogs, Uncategorized | 0 comments

There are many different triggers for asthma attacks and most asthmatics are well aware of their trigger points, although they may not always be able to avoid them. Pollen and pollution are increasingly responsible for triggering asthma and many people find a...
Strokes happen at any age, how to spot them and how to react

Strokes happen at any age, how to spot them and how to react

by Emma Hammett | Mar 18, 2025 | General First Aid, Uncategorized | 2 comments

New fingerprick test 2025 The fingerprick has been trialled for paramedics to help identify the types of stroke. It takes 15 mins for the result and it detects large vessel occlusion stroke (only accounts for 30% strokes) but 90% of deaths and disabilities. This...
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....
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