Green Cross Global Reviews

Knew most of it already

Our delegate reports Julia was excellent and thorough, but there were problems with the venue at a motor kart track in middle of school half term. Be great to have somewhere quieter for future courses.

I have heard good feedback from the colleagues which attended the course. However, I struggled to edit the details of colleagues I had entered when we had drop outs before. I also haven't heard if everyone has passed from yourselves, only through word of mouth from the colleagues.

I found the the afternoon a lot more useful than the morning. In the morning a lot of it was about defibrillators which I will never use so quite pointless.

Trainer was able to go into a little more depth to explain subject areas using real world examples

The training was good but having been told to get there for a prompt start at 9:00am the room that the course was being held in was not available until 9:40. There was a break again at 10:30 and the half hour lunch break started at 12:00 and went on to 13:15. As a result the units covering burns and strokes were very rushed in the afternoon session. Starting on time and keeping the breaks to the scheduled times would have meant that these units would have been covered very much more satisfactually. Apart from that and the venue being a bit downbeat, the trainer was very good

The trainer tured up an hour late left here with 10 people waiting for him and no knowing where he was with not even a call to tell me where he was after I called twice finally he turned up poor service and embarassing for me to have people waiting for a course.

The feedback I had from the attendees was that the first day could have been more productive. They would have liked more time to practise CPR and more participation rather than information being read off a laptop. There appeared to be some gaps in knowledge to changes in First aid practises which was confusing, for example, previously we were trained to put a patient in recovery position on their left hand side but when asked Rachel said she hadn't heard of this. This confused some of the candidates.

The delegates did not feel they had enough interaction. The statements made by the instructor often conflicted with the information given in the handbook. The course was rushed through for the number of delegates attending (10). Days were very short. Overall the delegates did not feel confident to complete the most basic instuction. The rating given is based on the instructor and the contents he shared.

The course content was easy to understand and Ben was knowledgable when queried on the content and gave very good real life examples. However when covering the material, after lengthy discussion points he would tend to skip over several slides of content which may contain important information. He would then question us on the content the next day but we didn't know what he was asking as and he would mention we covered it the day prior but it was often likely the content he skipped over.