Basic Life Support and First Aid Training

Skills for Care recommended Minimum learning Outcomes:
Will be dependent on the workers role and responsibilities and appropriate training should be provided to enable the worker to provide:
Basic life support:

• Understand and know how to follow procedures for responding to accidents and sudden illness.

• Be able to provide basic life support.

First aid:

• The awarding organisation will set the minimum learning outcome

Complete Training Minimum Learning Outcomes:
Enable the worker to:

• Achieve all recommended minimum learning outcomes (listed above) - Theory

• Identify the Aim of the Primary Survey

• How to support someone with coronavirus safely

• List three places where a defibrillator is normally located and if training is required to use one

• Identify the Acronym FAST in Stroke Registration

• List 5 items that would be expected in a first Aid Kit

First aid - practical:

This will cover all of the theory and include practical aspects such as:

• The performance of CPR

• How to deal with burns and bleeds

• How to deal with seizures

• What to do if a person is choking

• What to do if a person is unresponsive

Links to: CQC key lines of enquiry (KLOES) CQC fundamental standards:

• CQC KLOES / Safe: S2, S3, S6 / Effective: E1, E2, E7

• CQC fundamental standards / Safety

Suggested refresher frequency:

• Establishments must provide adequate personnel to respond if someone is taken ill or injured at work. It's the employer's responsibility to determine how many people need training and to what level.

Basic life support recommended refresher frequency:

• Provide learning and development opportunities when identified or required and at least annually.

• The Resuscitation Council (UK): 'Frequent "low-dose" training may improve CPR skills compared with conventional training strategies' noting 'is widely accepted that skills decay within three to six months after initial training'.

First aid required refresher frequency:

• At least every 3 years to be recognised as competent