Bristol medical simulator specialists Limbs & Things bring advanced training tools to the next generation of care professionals

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Peter Davison

Limbs & Things has put together a suite of products including catheterisation models for schools and colleges

Bristol-based medical task trainer specialist Limbs & Things has put together a suite of products including birth simulators and catheterisation models for schools and colleges around the country teaching the new healthcare T Levels.

It is now mandatory for students studying the Health and Healthcare Science T Levels, launched in September 2021, to experience simulation training with task trainers and manikins to prepare them for a career in healthcare.

Learners can study modules in adult nursing, midwifery, mental health, and therapy, which can lead to careers in nursing, pharmacy services, midwifery, and general care.

Anne Allin, commercial director, Limbs & Things said: “The new healthcare T Levels are a fantastic option for students considering a medical career and prefer more vocational learning. Our trainers offer a reliable and accurate simulation experience and help trainees gain both competency and confidence.”

Limbs & Things is working closely with colleges to provide products that align with the healthcare teaching modules and curriculum.

The healthcare T levels are now being taught in a number of colleges across the region and Limbs & Things have recently supplied products for the courses to support New Swindon College.

Introduced in 2020, T Levels are new two-year technical courses for 16–19-year-olds that can be taken instead of A Levels and prepare students for skilled employment, higher or degree-level apprenticeships and higher-level education.

Students can select T Levels as one of the main choices after GCSEs, and they can choose to learn “on the job” through an apprenticeship or continue with their academic education after completing the 1800-hour requirements of the T Levels.

Nearly 70 schools and colleges already offer T Levels and this number is expected to rise by 2024.

Peter Davison

Peter Davison is deputy editor of The Business Magazine. He has spent his life in journalism – doing work experience in newsrooms in and around Bristol while still at school, and landing his first job on a local newspaper aged 19. By 28 he was the youngest newspaper editor in the country. An early advocate of online news, he spent the first years of the 2000s telling his bosses that the internet posed both the biggest opportunity and greatest threat to the newspaper industry and the art of journalism. He was right on both counts. Since 2006 he has enjoyed a career as a freelance journalist. He lives in rural Wiltshire with one wife, two children, and three cats.