Wiltshire and Bath Air Ambulance Charity becomes a Resuscitation Council accredited course centre

In December 2025, our Charity successfully organised and delivered our first Resuscitation Council UK, Advanced Life Support (ALS) Course. This is a fantastic achievement and one that has taken over 12 months of planning and organisation to attain.

Wednesday, 21 January 2026

Wiltshire and Bath Air Ambulance Charity becomes a Resuscitation Council accredited course centre

In December 2025, our Charity successfully organised and delivered our first Resuscitation Council UK, Advanced Life Support (ALS) Course. This is a fantastic achievement  and one that has taken over 12 months of planning and organisation to attain.  

ALS is the Resuscitation Council UK’s longest running course and has been used to train healthcare professionals for over 25 years. They use evidence-based guidelines to create a programme that targets key topics relating to all elements of resuscitation and equips candidates with the technical and non-technical leadership skills needed when in high stress, high stakes environments. The training provides professionals with the confidence to lead in an emergency through: 

  • Recognising and managing the deteriorating patient using a structured ABCDE approach 

  • Delivery of standardised CPR in adults 

  • Management of a cardiac arrest by working with a multidisciplinary team in an emergency situation 

  • Becoming an effective and confident team member and leader by utilising non-technical skills 

The ALS course helps benchmark candidates who all work as medics or healthcare professionals in the hospital and pre-hospital setting. For many, the ALS course is mandated as part of their job specification, but candidates can also apply as optional continued professional development. 

In December, six candidates were successful in passing the rigorous two-day course, which formatively tests their clinical skills and knowledge through challenging simulations, and culminates with a theoretical test paper and a final simulation assessment.  

Adam Khan, critical care paramedic at Wiltshire and Bath Air Ambulance Charity who hosted the training, explained, “The course wouldn't have been such a success without our dedicated faculty, all consisting of doctors and specialist paramedics from the Charity who gave their time to facilitate the smooth running of the course which was externally quality assured by a regional representative from the Resuscitation Council UK. I am happy to announce that we have been formally signed off as a training and test centre and moving forward will be running courses regularly throughout the year. 

The ALS course will help to bring in valuable revenue to the Charity and help to maintain our current simulation suite and training equipment, as well as continuing to fund the vital work undertaken by the whole team.

We’d like to share a congratulations to Adam and the whole team involved in delivering this training, enabling other professionals to go above and beyond when delivering their own care. 

Interested to join a training course with our team?   

For healthcare professionals, please contact us via email to learn more about the ALS course. 

For businesses, community groups and schools, learn more about our Aware+ programme, delivering first aid training within our community.