Leeds street medic training, 28th-30th March

The UK Action Medics are run­ning a 2 1/2 day street medic train­ing in Leeds at the end of this month. This is a 20 hour course that will teach you the basics of gen­er­al First Aid, as well as skills to deal with med­ical sit­u­a­tions spe­cif­ic to direct action, such as deal­ing with chem­i­cal weapons and the police. The course will involve sce­nar­ios and hands-on prac­tice and, although we can­not offer you any offi­cial accred­i­ta­tion, the 2 1/2 day train­ing is the min­i­mum stan­dard for mem­ber­ship of the Action Medics, and will equip you for a wide range of sit­u­a­tions, from hypother­mia to baton wounds.

The UK Action Medics are run­ning a 2 1/2 day street medic train­ing in Leeds at the end of this month. This is a 20 hour course that will teach you the basics of gen­er­al First Aid, as well as skills to deal with med­ical sit­u­a­tions spe­cif­ic to direct action, such as deal­ing with chem­i­cal weapons and the police. The course will involve sce­nar­ios and hands-on prac­tice and, although we can­not offer you any offi­cial accred­i­ta­tion, the 2 1/2 day train­ing is the min­i­mum stan­dard for mem­ber­ship of the Action Medics, and will equip you for a wide range of sit­u­a­tions, from hypother­mia to baton wounds.

The train­ing will be on the 28th-30th of March, which is Fri­day to Sat­ur­day. There will be 3 or 4 hours on Fri­day evening and two full days on Sat­ur­day and Sun­day. Food will be pro­vid­ed, as well as accom­mo­da­tion if need­ed — we ask for a dona­tion of £30 to cov­er costs, although this will be less if we can find a venue for free.

The venue is as yet uncon­firmed, but the train­ing will take place in cen­tral Leeds, and we can give you direc­tions from the train/bus sta­tion. It is essen­tial to book a place so we know how many peo­ple are com­ing — please email iloveavocado@hotmail.com to do this, or with any ques­tions.

Also, we are plan­ning to organ­ise a 4 hour cer­ti­fied ‘Emer­gency Life Sup­port’ course on the Fri­day (28th March) after­noon. This will cov­er CPR as well as a bit of oth­er stuff, like how to con­trol bleed­ing and deal with an uncon­scious per­son. We don’t teach CPR in the 2 1/2 day course, although we cov­er every­thing else, but hav­ing cer­ti­fi­ca­tion is use­ful. We’d rec­om­mend that peo­ple com­ing on the 2 1/2 day course try to attend this too, but it isn’t manda­to­ry, and it is open to peo­ple who can’t com­mit to the week­end. As we will be bring­ing in an out­side train­er, please email if you want to come on this so we can work out if we have the num­bers.

www.actionmedics.org.uk