Level 3 Award in First Response Emergency Care (FREC® 3)
This is the new and updated qualification re-launched in June 2025
The Level 3 Award in First Response Emergency Care (FREC 3) is a nationally recognised pre-hospital care (PHC) qualification generally aimed at volunteers, first responders, event first aiders etc.
About the course
This new and improved qualification brings exciting changes that reflect the realities of modern prehospital care. The updated approach enhances practical skills development, ensuring training and assessments aligns closely to real world expectations.
These major updates ensure that this leading qualification not only meets current industry standards but also supports Learners in gaining the confidence, competence, and credentials they need to thrive as a prehospital care (FREC3) provider.
FREC® 3 meets the staffing requirements detailed in the ‘Purple Guide’ for Health, Safety, and Welfare at Outdoor Events. It also adheres to the standards agreed by the First Aid Awarding Organisation Forum (FAAOF) and the Health and Safety Executive for first aid qualifications.
The qualification is suitable for those providing event medical cover or roles such as First Responders, Door Supervisors, Close Protection Operatives and Security Guards, as well as those working in high-risk environments including the military, power stations, offshore renewable energy, agriculture and manufacturing settings
Course Entry Requirements:
Learners are required to evidence the following before they can be accepted on to the course:
Be 17 years of age (or older)
Produce government issued photographic ID
Learners are not required to have any formal qualifications in literacy or numeracy; however as a Level 3 Qualification you will be expected to demonstrate an adequate level of English to communicate with your patients, and understand various medical words.
Learners would also benefit from having access to a laptop and have basic IT skills as we use Microsoft Office 365 where we share additional training resources, course materials and other useful information that help and assist you on the course.
Course Content
This new version of the FREC 3 Qualification has mandatory and optional {Extended Skills} units.
Those learners wishing to avail of extended skills, require evidence to show that their employer supports these within their scope of practice (i.e. Community First Responders) and that they work within a clinical governance framework with appropriate policies.
- Roles & responsibilities of a first responder
- Scene assessment
- Incident management
- Summoning assistance
- Life threatening illnesses & Injuries
- Non life-threatening injuries & illnesses
- Airway assessment & management
- Unresponsive patient {not breathing normally}
- Safe AED Use
- Maintaining AED’s in a ‘ready’ state
- Administration of medical gasses
- Mechanism of injury, energy transfer, injury prediction & individual patient care
- Assessment, Treatment & Management of trauma patients {within scope of practice}
- Life-threatening blood loss
- Chest Injuries
- Wounds & Bleeding
- Compromised circulation
- Eye injuries and wounds
- Burns & scalds
- Poisoning
- Head, spinal & musculoskeletal injuries
- Moving & Handling of people in an emergency
- Assist clinicians in packaging, moving & handling patients
- Unwell patient assessment {within scope of practice}
- Breathing difficulties
- Major illnesses
- Unresponsive {breathing] patient
- Situational & environmental factors
From:
£495 + VAT
Course Summary:
Regulated RQF Qualification
Classroom
35 GLH hours
55 hours TQT
3 Year Certificate Validity
Course Delivery
Delivered over 5 days:
(usually over weekends)
For Example:
- Weekend 1
- Saturday & Sunday
- Weekend 2
- Saturday & Sunday
- Final Weekend
- Saturday OR Sunday
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