HealthFirst, one of the leading providers of health-related training for the English-speaking community in Switzerland, has just launched a new website that will make it easier for users to access the very latest information about their courses and other developments.
Located at www.healthfirst.ch, the website will prove popular not only with private individuals who are interested in receiving training in First Aid and Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) for adults and children, but also schools, sport institutions, playgroups, businesses, NGOs and other organizations, who require tailor-made courses on First Aid, as well as general health information and promotion.
Each of the standard courses provided by HealthFirst will be bookable online, including two new certified courses that should be available by October 2011: a “Basic Life Support and Automated External Defibrillation (AED) course”, certified by the Swiss Resuscitation Council, and the “First Aid for the Swiss Driving Licence course”, certified by the organisation RESQ.
In addition, it will be possible to purchase, through the website, HealthFirst’s new “First Aid Kit”, which has been carefully designed to include all the most essential items you are likely to need in a health-related emergency. These new kits should prove particularly popular with families who are often faced with child injuries that can challenge even the most well-equipped medical cabinet.
The idea behind HealthFirst was first conceived when Founder, Dr Penny Fraser, moved to Switzerland in 2004. Because she was an English doctor, she regularly received questions and queries about medical problems from Expat friends, parents and other people who looked after children. Whilst responding to these, she realised that there was a need for some formalised training covering common childhood health problems and First Aid for Anglophone parents and carers. Her first course was piloted in Geneva in June 2008 and subsequent courses were quickly oversubscribed. Courses were delivered in English and aimed at parents and carers looking after children away from their usual support networks of grandparents, friends, family doctors, and health visitors, etc.
After meeting co-Founder, Dr Michelle Wright, through her radio show, Health Matters, on World Radio Switzerland in November 2008, the two British-trained doctors soon discovered that they shared a passion for delivering health information and training to the English-speaking community in Switzerland. Since then, they have developed and expanded the range of First Aid courses that they offer in the region, in both the cantons of Geneva and Vaud. HealthFirst will also be expanding and delivering courses in German-speaking Switzerland later this year.
Since HealthFirst was formally created in March 2010, the Swiss company has delivered numerous courses to individuals including Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) for Babies and Children, CPR for Adults, First Aid for Child Injuries and Mountain First Aid courses. They have also delivered First Aid training to teachers and staff at some of the international schools in the area, as well as seminars for school children including sex education and healthy eating.
Commenting on the new website, Dr Fraser says, “With our other commitments in the health field, we have found it difficult in the past to devote as much time as we would like to the administration and also development of new courses and related health information. The new HealthFirst website should make our courses infinitely more accessible to our customers and, by automating many of the administrative functions associated with the courses, should enable us to spend more time delivering courses that are relevant and dynamic to the public.”
Dr Wright adds, "We also hope to spend more time developing new initiatives such as our First Aid Kits and our new seminar series, which we have developed in response to frequent requests from our clients. By signing up to our regular newsletter via our website, joining us on Facebook, or keeping up with us via Twitter, people can remain up-to-date with HealthFirst’s latest developments. In addition, our blog should prove to be a regular source of topical, up-to-date health information for visitors so we hope they will come back regularly to check it out!"
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Dr Penny Fraser and Dr Michelle Wright
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