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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.
firstCare Training
First aid courses for the home and workplace - HSE First Aid at Work,Appointed Persons, Care for Children (including Registered ChildminderFirst Aid), AED use, oxygen provision and more. Courses availablenationally, delivered in your premises or off-site, by professionalinstructors.
Emergency Medical Scotland
Repatriation ambulance company in Edinburgh. Cover all airports. Distanceno object. Will do overseas transfer by road.
St Andrew's Ambulance Association Aberdeen
The Aberdeen Company of Scotland's premier provider of first aidtraining and services. They provide first aid training courses and firstaid cover at events in Aberdeen and Grampian.
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 CountryAreas.
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. Video
Hopeline Videos
Mail order distributer of videos on a variety of issues dealing with education, preventative health and disability. Most were originally broadcast on British television. A video on first aid is available.
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- 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.
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