Are prehospital deaths from trauma and accidental injury preventable? A summary report 5 > Continue to test out different ways of teaching > Government education departments, schools, first aid education. teachers, young people and others should champion first aid learning, integrating it > Continue to use our knowledge and expertise into existing subjects and whole-school to identify areas with a high risk of first aid approaches. emergency. > The Welsh Government should integrate first > Consider examining the role of the call handler aid learning into planned changes to the Welsh in supporting the bystander to perform first aid. curriculum. Recommendations for the Red Cross: > The Department for Transport should make attendance at a practical first aid course > Seek to lead, along with academic colleagues, mandatory to acquire a driving licence in the the prehospital research community to UK. reach a consensus on what is considered ‘preventable’. > The Department for Transport should include bystander first aid as a key intervention in its > Consider exploring our role in responding to Road Safety Statement (2015). falls. > The departments for health and relevant Recommendations for decision-makers and national and local public bodies across the UK policymakers: should work with the Red Cross to ensure that all have the opportunity to learn first aid. > First aid should be mandatory in school curricula in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.