Have you ever thought about learning how to save
someone’s life? Would you know what to do if someone suffered a
cardiac
arrest, heart attack or was choking?
We offer Heartstart training free of
charge voluntary/community groups and charities. As part
of this scheme we hold open lifesaving sessions where anyone can
come along.
We also provide emergency life-support training to
organisations in the public and private sector at a cost.
Heartstart training for
Londoners
We hold free Heartstart sessions once a month in our
Waterloo HQ, 220 Waterloo Road, London SE1 8SD. Anyone is
welcome to come along.
Available dates:
- 21 May
- 18 June
- 17 July
- 20 August
- 16 September
- 22 October.
If you would like to attend, please contact our resuscitation
training team at resustraining@londonambulance.nhs.uk or
call on 020 7783 2534.
Our Heartstart courses for voluntary/community groups and
charities are free. The course last two hours
and teach basic life-support skills to enable you to give
life-saving support until ambulance staff arrive. The course
includes:
- Possible causes of cardiac and respiratory arrest
- What happens to the body during cardiac arrest
- How to recognise and manage a heart attack
- How to perform cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR)
- Putting someone into the recovery position
- Treating major bleeding and adult choking
- Defibrillator familiarisation.
The Heartstart initiative is coordinated by the British Heart Foundation and
participants receive a certificate of attendance. If you require a
certificate for work purposes, please refer to the paid courses
below.
Parent-and-baby courses are delivered free of charge at
community children’s centres. This one-hour course covers common
injuries and illnesses in infants.
If you want to find out if you are eligible
for free training please contact Antoinette Williamson
in our resuscitation training team:
Emergency life-support
training courses for paying clients
We also run training courses for paying clients in the
public and private sectors. Courses include:
- Emergency life-support
- Defibrillator training
- Paediatric life-support
- Emergency life-support for healthcare professionals.
The money from these paid courses helps to fund training under
the Heartstart scheme.
For more information please contact Antoinette
Williamson in our resuscitation training team.