First Aid Training Secondary School Pupils

Emergency Life Support Team, share the same beliefs as the Resuscitation Council UK and British Heart Foundation, that everyone should learn the skills to save a life and that schools, in particular, offer the perfect environment to do this.

In the UK, out of hospital cardiac arrest survival rates, currently fluctuates between 8 and 9 % compared to 25% in Norway. The bystander rate administering CPR, is just below 50% compared to 75% in Norway. The main reason for this is that in Norway, students have been receiving CPR training in schools since the 1960’s.

With every minute that lapses between someone entering cardiac arrest to administering defibrillation, decreases the chances of survival by up to 10%. Delivering effective CPR, can potentially increase the survival rate by double, buying the patient important time for them to be treated further.

With this in mind, the Emergency Life Support Team (ELST) have recently developed alternative types of First Aid training for students within schools. All instructors are ex or retired members of the Emergency Services with many years of front-line experience between them.

Courses also include, who are the emergency services, how we contact them and what information we need to pass on.

All students upon completion will receive a certificate of achievement at the end of the day which will also include an Emergency Service career talk, for budding Police Officers, Firefighters, Paramedics, Nurses and Doctors.