First Aid

UK sources of information and / or support

 St. John Ambulance

The UK's leading authority on First Aid. Click here for their immediate first aid advice.

 Savlon First Aid

Lots of information and 'what to do' ranging from minor accidents to serious emergencies.

 ABC First Aid Limited

First Aid training and services, approved by the Health and Safety Executive and National Sports Medicine Institute.

 First Aid Training

A UK first aid site.

 Facts Training

First aid training courses delivered on site in the workplace across theUK. Courses include First At Work, First Aid For Schools, PaediatricFrist Aid and Emergency First Aid For Appointed Persons. They also offera wide range of first aid kits and products available from an onlineshop with fast nationwide delivery.

 Extreme Medical

Specialist medical cover for specialist events. Extreme medical combine the skills of extreme sports with specialist paramedic training to provide medical cover where the risk of injury is high and where the event location is remote and hostile.

 Adventure First Aid

Delivers over 100 courses a year to the outdoorindustry, remote expedition members and medics, doctors and othermedical personel. Courses available at all levels from basic toadvanced. The team have practiced first aid and trauma care in remoteenvironments as part of expeditions and rescue teams.

 Henry's First Aid Training & Qualifications

Provides first aid training and courses throughout the UK including HSE approved First Aid At Work courses.

 Abertay Nationwide Training

Abertay provide training for Scotland, England, Ireland and Wales for Train the Trainer Courses for First Aid, MAnual HAndling, AED, Health & Safety as well as General Train the Trainer. We also provide trainer resouces for First Aid, MAnual Handling, AED, Fire Safety, VDU Safety and HEalth & Safety as well as provinging gereral training for First Aid at Work, Manual Handling, AED, Health & Safety etc.

 First Aid Cafe

An independent first aid community for trainers and people interested in first aid. Also contains Training Providers Directory of over 1500 First Aid training providers.

 First Aid Warehouse

Supplier of first aid kits forthe home, workplace, outdoor sports and professionals. First AidWarehouse supply blood pressure monitors and medical equipment fromKeeler, Omron, Welch Allyn, 3M and many more.

 Emergency Medical Scotland

Repatriation ambulance company in Edinburgh. Cover all airports. Distanceno object. Will do overseas transfer by road.

 St Andrew's Ambulance Association

St. Andrew's Ambulance Association is one of Scotland's leading charities and a provider of first aid training and services.

 ABC Medical Services

A leading providers of First Aid and Pre HospitalCare Training. They also provide Ambulance & Paramedic services.

 First Aid Training

First Aid Training to HSE recommendations for industry and commerce, together with Outdoor First Aid and Emergency Procedures forProfessionals who take groups outdoors into Low Country or Wild Country Areas.

 Hilotherapy®

The therapy works on the basis that ice, ice packs or a bag of frozen peas may damage your skin and may do little to help you heal! The Hilotherapy® system can be applied in any part of the body where swelling, pain and haematoma are present or need to be prevented. It delivers a constant cool temperature (which can be set) to the affected part of the body.

 Mediact first aid

REC first aid training courses for urban and remote areas. Publiccourses in the Peak District or private courses anywhere in the UK.

 Severn Ambulance & Medical Services

A voluntary organisation with over ten years experience of pre-hospital emergency care. Provides ambulance/first aid/medical cover for events, and work closely with the Avon Ambulance Service NHS Trust, both by First Responding and forming part of their Ambulance Reserve. They can also be booked to provide Patient Transport &/or A&E services for NHS & Private units, as well as by individuals* who need our help. Insurance work can also be undertaken. The training division run a number of public courses including First Aidat Work and Manual Handling.

 Solution Aid First Aid Training

A first aid training organisation based in the NorthWest of England that delivers hands on, practical firstaid courses designed to satisfy the specific needs of individuals andgroups. Their courses offer a complete range of first aid training from abasic level through to advanced for those in the outdoor, education,care and industrial sectors.

 Bostock Health Care First Aid

Registered by the HSE to provide First Aid at Work training - also first aid supplier.

 Pisces Training

Offers training in First Aid, CIEH Health & Safety and CIEH FoodHygiene.

 Medical Despatch Ambulance Services

First aid Cover and Event Medical Solutions Throughout Greater London and the Southeast.

 Medrock 'First Aid' Training

Learn First Aid. Medrock Training is a company based in Lincolnshire specialising in 4 Day FAAW recommended and approved First Aid Training Courses . Although Lincolnshire based, the services of MRT are available throughout the UK and beyond if necessary.

 Accidents and first aid

Information from NHS Choices - the government's patient information portal.

 Travel first aid kit

Information from BUPA.

Further sources / more detailed information

Some non-UK sites

The following list popular non-UK health information sites with content aimed at the general public. They are mainly from the US. They have not been checked to see if information about the above topic is included but these large sites are comprehensive.

• Non-UK disease / illness sites
• Non-UK self-help / support group sites

More detailed medical information

The following list online sources of more detailed medical information, mainly from the UK. These sites are mainly aimed at health professionals, but are of interest to all. They have not been checked to see if information about the above topic is included, but information about most medical topics can usually be found.

• PatientPlus - hundreds of medical reference articles provided by Patient UK.
• Evidence Based Medicine - such as from Clinical Evidence, The Cochrane Library, etc.
• Database of UK Clinical Guidelines - from NICE, SIGN, Clinical Knowledge Summaries, etc.
• Medline - abstracts available from thousands of journals.
• Sites listing free online medical textbooks and journals.
• Sites listing free medical images - pictures, atlases, anatomy, skin diseases, etc.