Resuscitation Training

The Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Foundation Trust resuscitation courses deliver essential skills in life support from airway skills, CPR and defibrillation to Advanced Life Support.

The courses provide healthcare professionals with the skills and confidence to recognise and manage deteriorating patients, manage cardiac arrest and work within a multi-disciplinary team during medical emergencies.

Our courses are accredited by the Resuscitation Council UK (RCUK) and are recognised as the 'Gold Standard'. RCUK’s qualifications are recognised and transferable throughout the UK and Europe and are valid for four years (ILS and PILS for one year).

Courses

Advanced Life Support (e-ALS)

Duration: 1 day eLearning and 1 day practical £400

Resuscitation Council UK’s e-ALS course blends a day of e-learning with a day of face-to-face practical learning. With over 20,000 healthcare professionals trained every year, ALS covers numerous essential skills in resuscitation, including delivery of adult CPR, recognition and management of the deteriorating patient and working in a team during emergency situations.

Our ALS qualification is recognised by the European Resuscitation Council and the Australian Resuscitation Council, giving you the freedom to use your lifesaving skills in other countries.

The e-ALS course is designed for healthcare professionals who need skills in advanced life support as part of their clinical duties, as well as those who teach these skills on a regular basis. This includes doctors, paramedics and nurses working in acute care areas (e.g. ED, CCU, ICU, HDU, operating theatres, acute medical admissions units) or on resuscitation/ medical emergency/ Critical Care Outreach teams.

All applicants must hold a professional healthcare qualification or be in training for a professional healthcare qualification. Medical students in their final year of training can be accepted as Candidates if this is an established local arrangement.

Upcoming course dates:

7th February 2026

21st March 2026

20th June 2026

8th August 2026

26th September 2026

31st October 2026

12th December 2026

Immediate Life Support (ILS)

Duration = 1 day practical £165

Immediate Life Support was developed by Resuscitation Council UK for healthcare professionals who may have to act as the first responder in an emergency, giving them the skills to manage patients in cardiac arrest before a cardiac arrest team arrives.

An ILS course provides a variety of skills, from managing a deteriorating patient, identifying causes and treating cardiac arrest, to improving abilities as both a team member and leader.

Our ILS qualification is recognised by the European Resuscitation Council and the Australian Resuscitation Council, giving you the freedom to use your lifesaving skills in other countries.

The ILS course is suitable for doctors, medical students, nurses, nursing students, midwives, paramedics and student paramedics, physiotherapists, dentistry professionals and other health and care professionals. It may also be suitable for fire service technicians, police personnel and prison officers.

Paediatric Immediate Life Support (PILS)

Duration = 1 day practical £165

Paediatric Immediate Life Support was developed by Resuscitation Council UK for healthcare professionals who may have to manage and treat paediatric patients in an emergency.

PILS provides a variety of skills, from managing a deteriorating patient, identifying causes of deterioration and treating cardiac arrest in children, to developing team leadership abilities and finding out what it takes to be an effective team member in a cardiac arrest emergency.

A PILS qualification is recognised across the UK and Europe, allowing healthcare professionals to save young lives in many parts of the world.

The PILS Course is appropriate for a range of Candidates including doctors, nurses, paramedics, ODPs, health visitors, school nurses, midwives, cardiac technicians, resuscitation officers, physiotherapists, dentistry professionals, ambulance technicians and medical and nursing students.

ILSi Course Duration = 1day eLearning and 1 day practical £225

ILSi is a specialist Instructor course that gives Candidates the skills to become an Instructor in Immediate Life Support (ILS) and Paediatric Immediate Life Support (PILS).

These skills can then be used to teach fellow healthcare professionals at ILS and PILS courses.

ILSi is not open to applications in the same way our other courses are.

Instead, our future Instructors are found when they’re Candidates on one of our ILS courses. Our Course Directors and Faculty identify Candidates who they feel would make excellent Instructors and recommend them as having Instructor potential (IP). Those Candidates then receive a letter inviting them to book a place on an ILSi course.

ILSi teaches the knowledge and skills required to:

understand the nature of teaching and learning;
understand the needs of individual learners;
understand the awareness of the four domains of learning;
undertake the various types of teaching sessions on the provider courses.

ILSi must be taken within one year of the date of the provider course.

How to book

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