Minor Injuries and Wound Care

Across the online eLearning and two in-class days, you will be able to:

• Assess by mechanism – use mechanism of injury to anticipate injury type and severity.
• Examine the injured limb – focused musculoskeletal assessment of the upper and lower limb with neurovascular checks.
• Care for wounds – assess, classify and close wounds using sutures, staples, adhesives and strips, select dressings, and manage minor burns.
• Manage infection risk – recognise infection, assess tetanus risk and apply antimicrobial principles.
• Recognise fractures – identify fractures and dislocations, immobilise, and know when to refer for imaging.
• Handle specific injuries – head, eye, ENT, nail and fingertip presentations, and spinal red flags.
• Document and escalate – record accurately, communicate clearly and safety-net.

The eleven online modules

1. Principles of Minor Injury Assessment and Mechanism of Injury — how mechanism and forces predict injury patterns and severity, trauma-specific history taking and initial risk assessment.
2. Focused Musculoskeletal History and Examination — the look, feel, move approach, neurovascular assessment, and validated decision rules including the Ottawa ankle and knee rules.
3. Wound Assessment, Classification and Healing Principles — types of wounds and burns, classification and depth, the phases of healing, and what impairs them.
4. Wound Closure, Dressings and Adhesives — primary versus secondary closure, sutures, staples, tissue adhesive and adhesive strips, dressing selection and aftercare.
5. Wound Infection, Tetanus and Antimicrobial Principles — recognising infection, tetanus risk assessment and prophylaxis, and antimicrobial stewardship in minor wounds.
6. Upper Limb Injuries — shoulder, elbow, wrist and hand, including dislocations, sprains and fractures.
7. Lower Limb Injuries — hip, knee, ankle and foot, applying the decision rules.
8. Fractures, Dislocations, Immobilisation and Imaging Basics — recognition, immobilisation principles, indications for X-ray referral, and an introduction to reading limb radiographs.
9. Head, Neck, Facial and Spinal Injuries — assessment, concussion evaluation, and cervical, thoracic and lumbar red flags requiring escalation.
10. Eye, ENT, Nail and Fingertip Injuries — common minor eye and ENT presentations, and nail and fingertip injuries including subungual haematoma and foreign bodies.
11. Documentation, Communication and Safety-Netting — accurate injury documentation, handover, safety-netting advice and clear escalation.

Each module ends with a knowledge check.

A MediPro CPD certificate confirming the CPD hours completed and the practical competencies assessed.

How you are assessed

• Knowledge checks at the end of each online module
• Practical observation of musculoskeletal examination technique on Day 1
• Practical skills assessment of wound closure and dressing on Day 2
• X-ray interpretation practice against example radiographs
• Scenario-based OSCE-style stations on the afternoon of Day 2, assessed against defined criteria
• Documentation assessed within the stations

Individual feedback on every station.

What the certificate does and does not do

It evidences that you have been taught and assessed on these techniques. It does not, on its own, authorise you to perform them on patients — that is governed by your employer’s scope of practice and local governance. Most people use the certificate as the training evidence their employer requires before signing them off locally.

• You are a registered healthcare professional, or have relevant clinical experience.
• You complete the online eLearning before attending. The classroom days assume it.
• You understand how the procedural skills work. Suturing, subungual haematoma drainage and similar are practised on models here, and applied in your workplace within your own scope of practice and local governance.

No prior minor injuries training is assumed.

£350 including VAT — or £297.50 each when you book four or more. Covers the online eLearning, both classroom days, all materials, assessment and your certificate.

Multiple booking discount

Employers booking four or more learners receive 15% off the total, including any optional services added at checkout.

Returning learners

Trained with us before? When you come back to requalify, take 10% off your refresher.

Course fee money-back guarantee

Attend the course, complete the learning and follow your tutor’s guidance. If you still do not pass, we refund your course fee. On eligible courses.

Secure your place with a 20% deposit

Pay 20% at checkout to secure your place on the date you want. The balance is due before your course starts.

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Employer invoicing

Employers booking several people can be invoiced rather than paying at checkout. Get in touch and we will set it up.

In-house delivery

For teams of ten or more we deliver the classroom days at your premises, with the models and consumables brought in. Your staff complete the eLearning beforehand as usual. Ask for a quote.

Staying overnight

Travelling to us from outside Teesside? We have agreed learner rates with the Sporting Lodge Inn at Stainton, a 5 to 10 minute drive from our Stockton-on-Tees centre, with easy access from the A19 and A174.

• £75 per night — bed and breakfast
• £95 per night — dinner, bed and breakfast, including a two-course evening meal and a drink

Both rates include free on-site parking and free use of the hotel gym and 25-metre pool. There is a pub and restaurant on site.

These rates are only available through us, not directly with the hotel. Add the nights you need to your checkout when you book your course, and we will arrange it and confirm the details with you.

Two classroom days means two nights. At £75 that is £150, with breakfast and parking included.

Rooms are subject to availability, so book as early as you can. Plans change — cancel your room up to 24 hours before arrival and we will refund it.

Download our Teesside accommodation and local area guide for learners (PDF)

Our centre is Faraday House, Sopwith Close, Stockton-on-Tees, TS18 3TT, with free on-site parking and direct access from the A66 and A19.

By rail

Darlington sits on the East Coast Mainline, under three hours from London King’s Cross, with direct services from Edinburgh, Newcastle, York and Leeds. Eaglescliffe is the nearest station to the centre, with parking, cycle storage and ticket facilities.

By air

Teesside International Airport is around twenty minutes away and Newcastle Airport about an hour, with direct flights from Aberdeen, Belfast and Dublin.

What it costs to attend

Teesside is straightforward to reach from anywhere in the UK, and cheaper to stay in than most training locations. Two nights here and two days away from work, against three days elsewhere, is the real saving.