The Northern Echo

Drugs and alcohol first aid lessons offered to 13-year-olds for the first time

HUNDREDS of 13 and 14-year-olds were taught how to give vital first aid to people affected by drugs or alcohol at a school event today (FRIDAY). The first aid sessions showed 240 year 9 students at ...
The Northern Echo

Call for schools to join online first aid session hosted by TV presenter Claudia Winkleman

A NORTH-EAST teacher is urging more schools to sign up for a free online first aid lesson by after research showed six in 10 children would not know what to do in a medical emergency. Durham School, a ...
British Red Cross

Alcohol and first aid

Looking at the scenario of a house party, learners explore peer pressure, social barriers to helping and the first aid skills to help someone who has drunk too much and is lying unresponsive and ...
Lancashire Evening Post

Schools to get help with first aid lesson

SCHOOLS all over Lancashire are being encouraged to join St John Ambulance's Big First Aid Lesson Live, which will be taking place next month. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Lancashire ...
Oxford Mail

Oxford Uni student stars in national first aid lesson

AN OXFORD University student will share the limelight with Strictly Come Dancing star Claudia Winkleman today as part of the biggest UK first aid lesson. Emma-Jane Hampsheir-Gill, an English language ...
Daily Post Wales

First aid lesson for Broughton Primary pupils

PUPILS of Broughton Primary School were given lessons in the three key elements of first aid: preserving life, preventing further harm and promoting recovery. PUPILS of Broughton Primary School were ...
The Mirror

Boy, 9, saves choking dad's life using first aid skills he learned in school less than 24 hours earlier

A nine-year-old boy stopped his dad choking to death on cereal using the first aid skills he was taught at school less than 24 hours earlier. Just the day before, Jack Lowis, from Bishop Auckland, ...
The Scotsman

First-aid ‘should be a lesson for life’ at schools

TEACHING every child first-aid at school would save thousands of lives a year and dramatically reduce waiting times at Accident and Emergency departments, a top doctor has claimed. Did you know with a ...
BBC

First aid lessons begin in schools ahead of roll-out

Trials of first aid lessons in English schools begin this month, with the classes becoming compulsory from 2020. A total of 1,600 schools from around the country are taking part. Education Secretary ...
Evening Chronicle

Boldon residents offered first aid lessons

LESSONS on first aid are being offered to people on Tyneside. Next month, St John Ambulance, is once again running its Save a Life September, which was first launched last year. In 2011, the scheme ...
Liverpool Echo

Gun first aid lessons for city children

LIVERPOOL children are being taught “urban first aid” to help friends who have been shot or stabbed. The scheme, which has started in Kensington, could soon be rolled out across the city. It was set ...
BBC

Gwynedd teen saves choking sister, 6, after first-aid lesson

A choking six-year-old has thanked her big sister for saving her life just two days after taking a first-aid course. Emma, 17, spotted sister Magi Elen struggling to breathe at the cafe run by her ...