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24 Sep 2014

Asthma is the most common chronic condition. It affects one in eleven children and there are over 25,000 emergency hospital admissions each year in the UK for children with asthma. A recent Asthma UK survey found that 86% of children with asthma have at some time been...

Emergency Resuscitation

5 Mar 2013

Paediatric Emergency Resuscitation

5 Mar 2013

Deregulation of First Aid Training at Work

1 Mar 2013

Changes to legislation in effect from 1st October 2013 – how it impacts your business On 28th November 2011, Professor Ragnar Löfstedt submitted a report called ‘Reclaiming Health and Safety for all’ – this was an independent review...

ITV to air First Aid Documentary

6 Feb 2013

We thought we’d pass on the news that ITV will this week be airing a one-off special documentary on First Aid in Britain. As far as we know, the programme How to Save a Life will explore the issues surrounding the UK’s poor cardiac arrest survival rates, looking at...

Outbreak of Legionnaire’s Disease

1 Feb 2013

An outbreak of Legionnaires’s disease has hospitalised a worker at St Christopher’s Hospice, in Sydenham, and affected two other inpatients.The Health Protection Agency (HPA) has been working with the hospice to investigate how the infection may have been...