Your whole dental team signed off in an hour
Your team’s annual medical emergencies update, costing you one lunch hour.
Everyone completes the theory online before they come — nine modules, 60 to 90 minutes, in their own time. The only time anyone spends in a training room is one hour, and that hour is purely hands-on, because the learning is already done.
No surgery closed. No day of lost appointments. No nurse sitting through slides she could have read at home.
Why it is built this way
The GDC and Resuscitation Council UK expect medical emergencies and life support training at least annually, for the entire dental team — dentists, therapists, hygienists, nurses and reception staff alike. SDCEP says the same. Nobody argues with it.
The problem has never been willingness. It is closing a surgery for a day to do it.
So we front-load it. The wider medical emergencies content your team needs — the emergency drug box, oxygen, bag-valve-mask ventilation, and recognising anaphylaxis, asthma, hypoglycaemia, cardiac events, seizures and syncope — is delivered online in Module 9. That is what lets the dental team meet its requirement without a longer visit.
The hour in our centre runs 12:30 to 14:00, monthly, which for most practices falls inside the lunch break.
What the hour actually looks like
Sixty minutes, assessed continuously, with everyone signed off as they demonstrate each skill. There is no separate exam. Manikins with live feedback, a training AED and an adrenaline trainer throughout.
- 0:00–0:05 — Welcome and safety. Confirm the e-learning is complete, brief, any questions.
- 0:05–0:28 — High-quality CPR, assessed. Adult manikin practice with real-time feedback on rate, depth and recoil; paediatric CPR where relevant to the role.
- 0:28–0:40 — AED in practice, assessed. Pad placement, following the prompts and shock safety in a simulated arrest.
- 0:40–0:50 — Recovery position and choking, assessed. Recovery position, back blows and abdominal thrusts.
- 0:50–1:00 — Anaphylaxis and IM adrenaline, assessed. Recognising anaphylaxis and giving adrenaline, then final sign-off and certificate.
Everyone leaves with their annual BLS, AED, recovery position and anaphylaxis competency signed off and a 12-month certificate.
Want more hands-on time?
Practices wanting hands-on bag-valve-mask and full drug-box practice — a whole dental team after extra scenario time, say — can have it built into the visit at no extra cost. It is not required to meet the standard, so we only include it when you ask — just say so when you book.
Where, and who teaches it
In our own centre in Stockton-on-Tees, in simulation areas set up as treatment rooms — so your team practises a collapse in the chair, in the space it would really happen in, with the emergency kit where it would really be.
Taught by experienced clinical educators — nurse practitioners, paramedics and GPs who still practise. When someone asks what actually happens when the ambulance arrives, the answer comes from last week.
Clinical and non-clinical staff both attend. Reception are often the first to see someone go down in the waiting room, and the first to reach the AED.
Or we come to you
For teams of ten or more, we deliver the hands-on hour at your practice. The team completes the e-learning beforehand as usual, then nobody leaves the building — which makes it the obvious option for a practice closure or team-training day.
Individuals wanting resuscitation training outside a practice team should look at our Basic Life Support and AED course.
Taught to the current guidelines
Resuscitation Council UK Guidelines 2025, which replaced the 2021 guidelines in October 2025 and changed the adult sequence. A team last updated on the old guidance is now a year behind.
