L3 Award in First Response Emergency Care (FREC3)
About The Course
- Level 3
- Qualsafe Award in First Response Emergency Care
Fully updated in June 2025, The Qualsafe First Response Emergency Care FREC3 qualification is for people who have a specific responsibility at work, or in voluntary and community activities, to provide prehospital care to patients requiring emergency care/treatment.
This 5 day course is a nationally recognised prehospital care qualification. It covers the full range of skills required by the HSE for first aid. FREC3 is the entry-level stage of the First Response Emergency Care pathway.
FREC3 is ideal for those looking to progress their careers within the emergency services, ambulance services and healthcare settings. It also supports those working in high-risk environments including the military, power stations, offshore renewable energy, agriculture and manufacturing settings.
Learning Outcomes
- Understand the role and responsibilities of a first responder
- Be able to assess a scene, summon assistance and initially manage an incident
- Be able to assess and manage patients with life-threating and non life-threatening illness and injuries
- Be able to assess a patient’s airway
- Be able to manage and maintain a patient’s airway
- Be able to manage an unresponsive patient who is not breathing normally
- Be able to safely use an AED during a resuscitation attempt. Know how to maintain an AED ready for use
- Be able to administer medical gases
- Understand the importance of mechanism of injury, energy transfer, injury prediction and how they relate to individual patient care
- Be able to assess, treat and manage trauma patients within scope of practice
- Be able to assess and manage life-threatening blood loss
- Be able to assess and manage chest injuries
- Be able to assess and manage wounds and bleeding
- Be able to assess and manage a patient with compromised circulation
- Know how to assess and manage wounds and eye injuries
- Know how to assess and manage a patient with burns or scalds
- Know how to manage a patient with sudden poisoning
- Be able to provide prehospital emergency care to a patient with head, spinal, and musculoskeletal injuries
- Be able to move and handle people in an emergency to a place of relative safety
- Be able to assist clinicians in packaging, moving, and handling patients
- Be able to assess a patient who is unwell within scope of practice
- Know how to identify and manage a patient experiencing breathing difficulties
- Know how to assess and manage a patient with suspected major illness
- Be able to manage an unresponsive breathing patient
- Know how to provide prehospital emergency care to patients who have been overcome by situational or environmental factors.
Course Certification
All learners who successfully complete the practical and written test will receive a Qualsafe Level 3 First Response Emergency Care (FREC3) qualification.
The certificate is valid for three years.
Course Price: £595.00 + VAT
Course Duration: 5 days
Course Location: Our purpose-built training facility in South Brent, Devon
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