Two friends are walking through a festival smiling and laughing, with their arms around each other's shoulders. One is a white woman with stripy trousers and a hat. The other has tanned skin, curly hair and a yellow top.

First Aid for Festivals

This First Aid for Festivals training course has been especially designed for anyone involved in running festival style events and is also suitable for attendees.

This course covers general first aid as well as how to handle a variety of drug related problems that can arise during festivals and in the time after taking drugs, including:

Alcohol
Accidents, nausea, high blood pressure, strokes, liver damage, cancer, dependence

Cannabis
Paranoia, psychosis-like experiences, anxiety, lung damage, nausea, dependence

Cocaine
Overheating, paranoia, psychosis-like experiences, heart failure, nasal damage, dependence

Ecstasy/MDMA
Dehydration, overheating, panic attacks, heart attack, stroke, psychosis-like experiences, low mood in days after use

Ketamine
Accidents, psychosis-like experiences, severe bladder problems, nasal damage, dependence

Amphetamines
Heart problems, overheating, anxiety, high blood pressure, psychosis-like experiences, dependence

About the Course

  • This course is designed for all those involved in the running and attendance of festivals: event organisers, event security, event marshals and festival participants.

  • When you book our first aid courses, you can expect engaging, interactive sessions led by our team of NHS-trained doctors, paramedics and nurses. We have decades of combined frontline medical experience and we can give you the skills to confidently handle all manner of medical issues as they come up.

  • Training can take place either at your premises or at another location chosen by you. We cover all of the UK and we’re happy to agree on a time and place that works best for you.

  • This is a 1 day course lasting 7 hours.

  • Certification valid for 3 years.

    Our physical certificates are printed out on high quality paper and then sent to you via post. We also supply a PDF copy of each certificate.

  • Please fill out the information form on our contact page and we will get back in touch shortly with a no-obligation quote.

Some of the topics covered in First Aid for Festivals:

✔ General first aid
✔ Problems caused by alcohol
✔ Problems caused by cannabis
✔ Problems caused by cocaine
✔ Problems caused by ecstasy/MDMA
✔ Problems caused by ketamine
✔ Problems caused by amphetamines

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