Essex County Fire and Rescue Service (ECFRS) will host the United Kingdom Rescue Organisation (UKRO) Festival of Rescue 2026 at the University of Essex in September.

Lanna Deamer speaks to Dr Gareth Grier about how Essex & Herts Air Ambulance is reviewing every patient death attended by its crews to improve learning, support clinicians and better understand what happened in the most complex emergency cases.

The Health and Care Professions Council is running its second CPD Week from 2-6 March and asking healthcare professionals across the UK to get involved.

At The Emergency Services Show, solicitor advocate David Burrows-Sutcliffe, resilience consultant Nicholas Farr, and CPDme founder Andrew Ormerod explored why records and professional reflection are now central to operational practice. They identified two key issues: incomplete decision records and the gap between attending training and proving competence.

West Midlands Police is pioneering a fresh approach to officer training, giving new recruits virtual reality (VR) headsets to experience incidents from the perspective of victims, developed in partnership with Birmingham-based social enterprise Calico.

Continuous learning is part of the job for any emergency services professional. But finding the time to record it, and keeping that record up to date, often slips down the list of priorities. That’s the gap CPDme was designed to fill, explained founder and director Andrew Ormerod, speaking at this year’s Emergency Services Show.

Midlands Air Ambulance Charity has rolled out a new initiative aimed at improving emergency response in rural areas: the First Farmer on Scene course. The programme trains members of the farming community in vital lifesaving skills to support casualties before professional help arrives.

The official Police Foundation handbooks Roadcraft and Motorcycle Roadcraft have been fully updated for today’s drivers and riders, with new content on advanced assistance systems and electric vehicles, and are now available as flexible e-learning courses.

A new training facility has opened to prepare ambulance teams across England for major incidents, from building collapses and plane crashes to terror attacks, following a £5.9m investment from NHS England and London Ambulance Service.

A look at Operation Tendley 2, a large-scale multi-agency road traffic collision exercise that took place recently in South Wales to test coordination, decision-making, and emergency response under realistic conditions.