FAST News
- We strongly advise Parents & Carers to learn Emergency / Basic Life Support Skills'
- FAST healthcare help to deliver part of the 'Every Child Matters' agenda, at Midhurst Rother College & Bohunt School
- FAST healthcare are giving it away!
- Store staff can be life-savers - related course - Basic Life Support Skills
August 27, 2009 - Midhurst and Petworth Observer
Store staff can be life-savers SUPERMARKET staff are better prepared to deal with a first aid emergency after taking part in a new computer course.
Four members of staff at Budgens in Midhurst learned the basics of vital lifesaving skills after taking part in the pilot project run by Stedham man Richard Norrie's FAST healthcare company.
The e-learning profect involves a very short interactive online course designed to last 30 minutes for the quickest learners, or those with some existing knowledge, while others can work through it at their own pace.
Mr Norrie said: "Nationally, 75,000 people every year die from a cardiac arrest before they reach hospital."
"This figure could be significantly reduced if more of us coud receive emergency life support training to help someone whose life is in danger.
"It can double a victims' chances of survival but the vast majority of people have not been trained in these vital skills".
"Our initiative, together with NHS resuscitation specialist partners based in Birmingham, has created the perfect tool, accessed via the internet, which offers people a very user-friendly way to learn about these essential skills."
As a way of increasing awareness, FAST healthcare ia linkinf up with local schools, leisure centres, libraries and supermarkets to run short pilots which will enable children and adults to experience the course.
Among the first in the area to try it was Budgens, where manager Damian Flyn set aside time for volunteers to give the course a go.
Among those taking part were Martin Cooper and Kayleigh Butcher. Each received certificates,
Kayleigh said: I now know how to do CPR and to recognise the signs of a cardiac arrest".
Students at Midhurst Rother College are to take part in a further trial of the project in September.
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PORTFOLIO OF COURSES:
- NEW - EMERGENCY / BASIC LIFE SUPPORT SKILLS
- Safeguarding and Promoting the Welfare of Children, Child Protect Training which includes the 7 Golden Principles of Information Sharing.
- NSF for Older People - The Single Assessment Process
- Clinical Negligence - update to include The Constitution Patients Rights
- Managing COPD
- NSF for Diabetes Mellitus
- Anaphylactic Shock
- Dementia
Contact FAST to find out more!