First aid by British Red Cross

British Red Cross

About this app

Free, simple and life-saving, this app teaches vital first aid skills and gives you the confidence to save a life.

Know what to do in an emergency with the British Red Cross’s official First aid app. With videos, quizzes and simple step-by-step advice, it’s never been easier to learn first aid. Get this essential app on your phone now and start learning and testing your knowledge.

This app works when you are offline – no internet connection is needed - making it an invaluable, free life-saving tool.

Ratings and reviews

I consider myself to be reasonably well informed about general first aid, but this app allows me to brush up on my knowledge, especially about conditions that I have not come across, like febrile seizures. I enjoy the quizzes, although there seems to be a bug, whereby it doesn't always record your answer accurately, so it gives you a wrong mark when you actually answered correctly.

This is a fabulous little app. There's quizzes In here. Why not have an evening of learning and quizzing. Using this app has reminded me of those little things it's easy to forget and not know you have. I've been a first aider from my Army days. I've found the quizzes bring the learning alive. If you get answers wrong be glad you did. You'll learn more by trying making mistakes. It's a great internal confidence boost.

It doesn't tell you how to correctly seek medical advice. This would force people to call 999 for all medical concerns. First Aid for unconscious and not breathing adult also doesn't tell you why not to do any breaths. This doesn't feel at all aligned with what we learned from the course we attended with British Red Cross instructors, as we checked breathing, call for help and get someone to call 999, do compressions and give breaths until help arrives. It also doesn't show the recovery position

What's new

We’re always making changes and improvements to the First aid app. In this release, we have done some general maintenance and bug fixes.