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Basic Life Support (BLS) Level 2 (VTQ)

Learn the Essentials of Basic Life Support to save a life. Ideal for many industries and for anyone wanting the basics of CPR.
CPD Certified Online Training Approved by Skills for Care

Basic Life Support (BLS) Level 2 (VTQ) at a glance

  • 1-year nationally recognised certificate
  • 2 hours and 10 minutes of engaging video training
  • Video access for 8 months
  • Printable wall certificate
  • CPD time credit conformation
  • Follows latest UK Resuscitation and ERC guidelines
  • Free weekly video refresher
  • Evidence Based Training certificate
  • 100% online or add a skill session with one of our national evaluators
  • Videos include subtitles
  • Adult, child and infant resuscitation included
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Online Course: £24.95 + VAT

We have been recognised as an endorsed provider from Skills for Care, earning the prestigious distinction as a Centre of Excellence within training and health & social care.

This course covers Basic Life Support skills and includes skills for Adult, Child and Infant as well as healthcare variations on infant CPR. The course includes Safety, precautions, initial assessment, recovery position, CPR, compression-only CPR, CPR handover and choking. This is ideal for nurses, care workers or medical professionals needing annual updates to complete professional membership. In most cases, this course is ideal as an online-only course but if you need a practice session as well we have a network of approved instructors where we can offer the course as blended including a short practise session. Please contact us to discuss the practical part of your training.

This course includes the latest CPR and Coronavirus recommendations.

ProTrainings Basic Life Support courses have been designed to meet all the required learning outcomes and are aligned to the Skills for Health UK Core Skills Training Framework or UK-CSTF.  This includes both level 2 adult and paediatric patient care.  

The course is valid for one year, complies with the latest ERC and UK Resuscitation Council Guidelines and can be done 100% online, blended or classroom-based nationally.

This qualification and most of the other ProTrainings qualifications are Endorsed by TQUK to show our commitment to extra levels of compliance and quality assurance.

The content of this and all our courses has been independently certified as conforming to universally accepted Continuous Professional Development (CPD) guidelines and come with a Certified CPD Statement as well as a ProTrainings Certificate and for online courses an Evidence Based Learning statement.

  • Firefighters
  • Nurses
  • Care Workers
  • Doctors
  • First Aiders
  • Medical workers
  • People needing basic CPR skills

This course comes with 3.0 hrs (4.0 class) of CPD, although the time to complete the course online may be less than this. Total course time includes 2 hours and 10 minutes of video training as well as knowledge reviews, final test, remedial help and reviewing downloaded material.

The content of this and all our courses has been independently certified as conforming to universally accepted Continuous Professional Development (CPD) guidelines and come with a Certified CPD Statement as well as a ProTrainings Certificate and for online courses an Evidence Based Learning statement.

For full details of the online course please visit our Basic Life Support Training site.

  • Introductory First Aid Training
    • Basic Life Support Introduction
    • Fears of First Aid
    • Asking Permission to Help
    • Scene Safety
    • Chain of Survival
    • DRAB and the ABCD's
    • Initial Assessment
    • Stop Think Act
    • Differences in Child Size
    • Barriers
    • Face Shields
    • Hand washing and hand gels
    • Adult Bag Valve Mask
  • Cardiac Arrest
    • Heart Attack
    • Heart Attack Position
    • Adult CPR
    • Adult, Child, Infant CPR
    • Adult CPR Hand Over
    • Compression-Only CPR
    • AED Introduction 
    • Child CPR Breakdown
    • Infant CPR
    • Drowning
  • Choking
    • Adult Choking
    • Child Choking
    • Infant Choking
  • Summary
    • Oxygen for First Aid
    • Summary to BLS