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Your workforce
Look at total staff, your busiest shift, lone workers and waking nights. The people available on a shift matter as much as the size of your team.
FREE PLANNING TOOL · ADULT SOCIAL CARE IN ENGLAND
Social Care First Aid Calculator
A clearer plan for first aid cover. A better prepared care team.
Use PRISM’s free first aid needs calculator to explore staffing, shift cover and care risks in your service. Turn your answers into a practical training plan you can review, save and print.
- Residential and nursing care
- Domiciliary care and lone working
- Office and administration teams
FROM YOUR SERVICE TO YOUR TRAINING PLAN
What does the calculator help you consider?
The people you support
Consider care needs such as choking risk, falls, epilepsy, anaphylaxis and delegated clinical tasks alongside workplace hazards.
Your next steps
Review indicative first aid cover and training priorities. Save or print your report, then use it to support a discussion with your manager or our training team.
CARE PROVIDERS, FOR CARE PROVIDERS
First aid planning with care services in mind.
Our directors continue to lead residential care, domiciliary care and supported living services. We understand the practical questions behind a training request: who is on shift, who works alone, what support people need and how training fits around the rota.
This tool helps you bring those questions together before choosing courses. PRISM provides training across the UK; this calculator’s guidance is specifically for adult services in England.
Social care first aid planning: your questions
How many first aiders does a care service need?
There is no single number that fits every service. Your assessment should consider hazards, staff numbers and working patterns, absence cover, lone working, emergency service access and the people receiving care. The calculator provides an indicative starting point for a manager to review against the service’s full first aid needs assessment.
Can I use it for a care home or domiciliary care service?
Yes. Choose residential care, nursing care or domiciliary care to reflect your adult service in England. There is also an office and administration option. For a mixed service or a setting that does not fit these choices, talk to us about interpreting the results.
Does it help with BLS, Emergency First Aid at Work and First Aid at Work?
It helps identify training priorities for review. Basic Life Support (BLS), Emergency First Aid at Work (EFAW) and First Aid at Work (FAW) address different responsibilities and levels of need. Use your assessment and the course content to choose suitable learning; care-specific risks may also require additional training and practical competency checks.
Is the calculator free, and can I keep the result?
Yes. You can use the calculator without a course purchase and save or print the resulting report. Read the calculator privacy notice before saving your organisation’s assessment. Do not enter information identifying people receiving care.
What guidance informs the tool?
The tool uses HSE guidance, CQC requirements and care training standards as planning references. It supports your review and does not certify compliance or replace a complete first aid needs assessment. See HSE’s first aid needs assessment guidance for the factors employers should consider.
Put your plan into practice.
Explore our first aid and BLS training courses, bring your report to a planning meeting, or connect your findings with the Social Care Recommended Training Pathway.