FOI 2025/1486

I am an year 1 medical student working on a project about Basic Life Support and Advanced Life Support readiness of medical professionals in the country.
I would like to ask:
1. What is the required frequency for statutory BLS training?
2. What incentives or measures has the trust adopted to encourage annual BLS training for medical professionals with patient facing duties ( no pay progression if mandatory training not completed, departmental sessions, ESR alerts, managerial supervision of mandatory training etc)?
3. Does the organisation require resus teams to have Advanced Life Support training?

1. NHS Greater Manchester (NHS GM) require all staff to be compliant in Resuscitation training; this is a one-off module with no specified renewal period, based on the E-learning for health content.
2. NHS GM does not employ medical professionals in direct patient facing responsibilities. However, for completion of the required module for their ICB duties, pay progression can be withheld for non-compliance with mandatory training, funded development opportunities may be declined. Support sessions are available on request, ESR alerts are sent automatically from the system. Compliance reports are available to managers on a self-service basis for monitoring purposes. Compliance is reported to committees in the organisation.
3. Not applicable – NHS GM does not have a resus team.