COMPANY NEWS

Below is a selection of recent news and information from Premium Health.

TRAINING AWARD WINNERS
Premium Health were proud to receive an award for Innovation in Training and Assessment at the CSHTB Training Awards held in July, 2007. Premium Health’s Level 2 First Aid range of 4 delivery options was the winner of the 2007 Innovative Product award.

Above: Phillipa Wilson, CEO, Accepting training award for Premium Health.

Above: Premium Health's team celebrating at the training award night.
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CPR and Choking: New Guidelines for First Aid Management
The Australian Resuscitation Council (ARC) released new resuscitation guidelines in March 2006.
What first aid providers have been doing in previous guidelines has neither been wrong nor harmful. However, the new evidence based guidelines allow for a simpler approach that allows the learner to retain the knowledge and skills more easily and therefore encourage the performance of CPR should need arise.
Come and listen to the new changes un resuscitation and see the new techniques for CPR and Choking.
Click here to view the new choking guidelines.
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Providing First Aid in Schools - More Than Just a Band-Aid
Phillipa Wilson
CEO, Premium Health
Each year in Victoria, unintentional School injury accounts for 20% of presentations to hospital emergency departments and 25% of hospital admissions. Preparedness of teaching staff to provide first aid is of the highest priority. Consider if you are really prepared.
(Click here) to Download and view (76 KB) Phillipa Wilson's Paper (pdf) on this topic.
(Click here) to Download and view (1.33 MB) Phillipa Wilson's Power-Point Presentation on this topic.
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