Seven free prompt cards

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Physical first aid has protocols you can practise until your hands know them. A lot of what responders face has awareness instead — which tells you something is wrong, but not what to do or say next. These cards are the bit in between: one topic per card, written to be read in the ten seconds before you act.

Three cards from the Clinical pack and four from the Mental Health pack, free, in both A5 and A6. If they earn their place in your bag, the full packs are on Etsy.

Free · 4 cards

Mental Health Prompt Cards

Four cards from the 46-card pack — the conversation, the question people avoid asking, three states that look alike and need opposite responses, and where to send someone next.

02 · Starting the Conversation

Picking the moment and the place, opening with what you noticed, asking twice, and letting silence do the work. Most people are waiting to be asked.

03 · Asking About Suicide

How to ask plainly, what to do with a yes, and what not to say. Asking directly does not plant the idea.

21 · Meltdown, Shutdown or Panic?

Three things that look alike and need opposite responses — plus the medical causes to rule out first.

16 · Getting Help — UK Routes

Emergency, urgent and non-urgent routes by nation, with the numbers that are open now.

The full pack covers recognising distress, what to actually say, conditions, neurodiversity, capacity and detention law, responder welfare, and the bereavement set.

Free · 3 cards

Clinical Prompt Cards

Three cards from the 46-card FREC 3 and FREC 4 pack, aligned to Resuscitation Council UK Guidelines 2025.

42 · Cardiac Arrest Checklist

Top to bottom, compressions first, everything else fitted around them — first minutes, then when ALS arrives.

24 · AED Pad Placement

Bare, dry chest, and the placements that catch people out.

34 · Reading an ECG

The same nine steps in the same order, every time — which is what stops you missing things.

The full pack covers assessment, trauma, resuscitation, drugs, ECG and cardiac arrest. Every diagram and rhythm strip was drawn or generated specifically for it.

Printing

A5 for the wall, A6 for the pocket

Before you use them

These are memory aids and CPD references. They are not a diagnostic tool, they are not a crisis service, and they do not replace your training, your scope of practice or your organisation's protocols.

If someone needs help now: 999 for immediate danger to life. NHS 111, then the mental health option, for urgent mental health need. Samaritans 116 123, free, 24 hours. SHOUT — text 85258.

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