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2.3 The concussed female brain

Visible Women with Caroline Criado Perez

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Basic First Aid Training for Police Officers

Police officers are trained to look for hidden medical conditions in a domestic abuse setting, but not specifically concussions. College of policing said that they've got a specific module in head injury as part of their first aid learning programme. But this is only a requirement in higher modules than that, given as a minimum to response officers. So in other words, the minimum training doesn't include head injury. In some specific instances they will train. And i think they've put here soa first aid in a custody setting. That's interesting. It suggests that the training exists, so they could roll it out more widely. Ohwll, they're not medics. You can't expect us to

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