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5 Day Course
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Ofqual Regulated
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Valid for 3 Years
What Is FREC 3?
Fully updated and re-launched in June 2025 — Qualsafe Level 3 Award in First Response Emergency Care (RQF) (FREC® 3)— New content | Streamlined assessments, fewer MCQ papers, less paperwork | More scenario-based assessments | Extended skills(subject to clinical governance authorisation)
This course is designed for those who are often first to arrive at a potential first aid emergency. This includes Police Officers, Firefighters, and those providing medical cover at festivals and events such as Emergency/Community First Responders, Door Supervisors, Close Protection Operatives, Security Guards or anyone with an interest in developing a strong understanding in first aid and pre hospital medicine. It is also suitable for those working in high risk environments including the military, power stations, agriculture and manufacturing centres. The FREC system is modular based, enabling a participant to progress through each level from FREC 3 to FREC 5 if desired. Each level builds upon the last, developing your clinical practice and knowledge. FREC 3 is the first step on the pathway, giving you a strong foundation to your pre hospital medical practice.
What's Covered?
- Understand the role and responsibilities of a first responder
- Be able to assess an incident
- Be able to assess and manage patients with life-threating and nonlife-threatening illness and injuries
- Be able to assess a patient’s airway
- Be able to manage 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 and how to maintain an AED ready for use
- Be able to administer emergency oxygen
- Be able to assess and manage trauma patients
- Be able to assess and manage catastrophic bleeding
- Be able to assess and manage chest injuries
- Be able to assess and manage 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 emergency care to a patient with head, spinal and musculoskeletal injuries
- Know how to identify a patient experiencing breathing difficulties
- Know how to manage a patient experiencing breathing difficulties
- Know how to manage a patient with anaphylaxis
- Know how to assess and manage a patient with suspected major illness
- Know how to manage a patient who is actively convulsing
- Understand how to provide emergency care for the effects of environmental exposure
- Mass Casualty & Major Incident
- 10 Second Triage
Extended Skill - IGel Airway Managment
- Entonox Analgesia
- Penthrox Analgesia
- Naloxone
- Blood Glucose Measurement
Extended skills require approval for you to be assessed and signed off. You will receive an approval form as part of your joining instructions that will need be be signed by a Heath Care Professional, or your clinical responsible person from your organisation.
Should you not wish to qualify in the extended skills, you can still attend the course, but will not be assessed or certificated in the use of these extended skills. You will still leave with the FREC 3 certificate, should you be successful within the course.
