Overview
An essential course for all healthcare professionals, manual therapists and those called on to deal with medical and trauma emergencies in pre-hospital settings. This course has been updated with new guidance on resuscitation procedure in the Covid-19 World
04 July 2026
This seminar is 7 CPD hours
Course Details
Evidence continues to demonstrate how quickly emergent skills erode and how standard training in the hospital or clinical setting does not address the needs of the pre-hospital practitioner. Delegates are encouraged to re-evaluate their emergent skills and knowledge and discuss their own experiences and concerns amongst their peers, based on actual scenarios and case studies. This course provides the minimum level of statutory first aid training recommended by the Health and Safety Executive. You will be awarded a nationally-recognised ‘Emergency First Aid at Work’ certificate which is valid for 3 years and is accepted by all healthcare and therapy governing bodies for insurance and CPD purposes.
Whilst no longer required face masks will be available for all who would like to use them.
Registration is from 09:00 and the course runs from 09:30-17:30.
Course suitability
This course is suitable for all manual therapists.
Summary of Osteopathic Practice Standards (updated) covered in this course
B Knowledge, skills and performance – B1, B2, B3
C Safety and quality in practice – C1, C4
- Understand the legalities of duty and standard of care, professional obligation and scope of practice.
- Understand the primary survey: AcBCDE.
- Understand how to perform basic life support and defibrillation according to the Resuscitation Council Guidelines 2015.
- Learn the assessment and management of the unconscious casualty: GCS/AVPU
- Understand the latest perspectives in head injury/concussion assessment: Berlin consensus assessment and management of neck injury: JRCALC
- Learn the management of trauma in medical and environmental scenarios: case studies and open forum – asthma, anaphylaxis, hypoglycaemia, seizures, etc
About the course leader
Dan Major has over 24 years of experience working as a healthcare professional in the Ambulance Service. As an NHS Paramedic, he has held multiple roles on the frontline, including 8 years as a member of the Hazardous Area Response Team (HART). Throughout most of his ambulance career, Dan has been involved in instructing and assessing, starting as a mentor for new staff before becoming a Safe Working at Height Instructor in HART. He later transitioned to roles such as Assistant Community Engagement and Training Officer. He integrates these experiences into his training courses, making them engaging and enjoyable for all.
Two and a half years ago, Dan left full-time ambulance service employment to establish his own company, Medical Rescue Consultancy Ltd (MRC Ltd), though he still maintains a part-time bank contract with South Central Ambulance Service. Through MRC Ltd, Dan provides a range of training, from one-hour emergency first aid CPD sessions to five-day pre-hospital emergency care courses (FREC4). In summer 2023, Dan joined the English Football Association’s (FA) medical faculty and now teaches on their courses at venues across the UK. He is also a visiting lecturer in Pre-Hospital Emergency Care assisting with the delivery of the FA’s Intermediate Trauma and Medical Management in Football (ITMMIF) courses at Solent University.
Dan’s training is based on the latest evidence-based emergency care practices. It is delivered in a realistic and pragmatic manner, clearly and straightforwardly, making it suitable for Physical Therapists and Clinicians. The training aims to demonstrate how clinical reasoning skills should be adapted and applied across a variety of trauma, medical, and time-critical scenarios.
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