Changes to Basic Life Support training

Some changes to SLaM training profiles and delivery take effect on December 1st 2022. For Basic Life Support training, this means non-clinical staff will no longer have this training as a mandatory requirement.

Earlier this year we undertook a review of BLS and its application in practice.

A paper was presented and signed off at the Trust Mandatory and Statutory Training Committee, Trust Resus Committee and sighted at the Nurse executive committee.

It proposed the following:

• That all staff in non-patient facing roles no longer require face to face BLS training. The paper highlighted the current provision we are currently providing for Basic Life Support, referred to current national training guidance, incidents of BLS use in non- patient facing environments in SLaM and other trusts current practice.

Based on this it was agreed and signed off that all staff in non-patient facing roles will no longer require BLS as part of the mandatory training requirement.

• That staff who work in those environments should promote first aid for staff in non-patient facing environments, as this is a statutory requirement, this has a BLS component to the course

What does this mean for you?

• Your profile will be changed to fit with your updated mandatory training requirement
• That all staff in non-patient facing clinical roles will no longer need to complete BLS
• That all staff in non-clinical roles will no longer need to complete BLS
• All Patient-facing clinical staff will continue to require BLS (or higher level of Resuscitation training).