Core mandatory subjects
Many healthcare and care providers organise learning around recurring topics such as fire safety, infection prevention and control, health and safety, safeguarding, moving and handling, information governance, and equality.
Topic-led healthcare training
Online healthcare training by topic
Browse healthcare training topics for care providers and healthcare teams in England. Start with fire safety, health and safety, or infection prevention and control, then move into courses and bundles that support induction, refreshers, certificates, and manager reporting.
Topic-led training helps providers manage statutory and mandatory subjects without losing sight of local risk, role requirements, and evidence. Use these routes when the training need starts with the subject.
Fire safetyHealth and safetyInfection controlCertificates and refreshers
Role and setting fit
The same subject can have different expectations for care assistants, senior carers, registered nurses, office staff, agency workers, and managers. Topic-led pages help teams start from the subject, then match it to the people who need it.
Evidence and refreshers
Training topics need clear completion records, certificates, renewal dates, and manager visibility so organisations can show what has been assigned, completed, and reviewed.
Choose a Topic
Use these pages when you already know the subject area and need a clearer route into relevant courses, bundles, and compliance evidence.
Topic training
Fire Safety Training
Fire safety training for care settings with online learning options that support awareness, compliance, and clearer reporting.
fire safetyfireemergency
Topic training
Health and Safety Training
Health and safety training for care teams with online options that support safer working routines, certificates, and manager oversight.
health and safetysafetyworkplace safety
Topic training
Infection Control Training
Infection control training for healthcare and care teams with online learning options that support safer practice and visible compliance.
infection controlinfection preventioninfection
England focus
Connect each subject to role, risk, and renewal evidence.
In England, employers decide which training topics are required for different staff groups. The decision should reflect legislation, national guidance, local policy, the care environment, and the duties people actually perform.
The Core Skills Training Framework is widely used in healthcare to map statutory and mandatory subjects, learning outcomes, and refresher expectations. Social care providers still need to apply topics to their own service risks, CQC evidence needs, and workforce structure.
Common topic areas
Fire safety and emergency response
Health, safety and welfare
Infection prevention and control
Safeguarding adults and children
Moving and handling awareness
Information governance and data security
Equality, diversity and human rights
Mental capacity, privacy, dignity, and person-centred care
Conflict resolution and lone working
Resuscitation or practical skills where the role requires them
Which Topic Fits?
Start with the subject, then decide which roles need it, what level is appropriate, and whether online learning is enough.
| Topic | Best for | Training focus | Next step |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fire safety | Useful when providers need staff to understand fire risks, prevention, evacuation routines, alarms, emergency procedures, and local responsibilities. | Awareness, response expectations, certificates, annual refresher planning, and evidence for care homes, home care teams, and supported settings. | View topic page |
| Health and safety | Useful when teams need safer working routines across care delivery, offices, community work, and mixed-role services. | Risk awareness, incident reporting, slips and trips, workplace safety, lone working, welfare, and manager oversight. | View topic page |
| Infection control | Useful when providers need consistent infection prevention routines across care homes, domiciliary care, nursing services, and healthcare teams. | Hand hygiene, PPE awareness, cleaning routines, waste handling, outbreak awareness, safer care practice, and renewal evidence. | View topic page |
Evidence workflow
Topic training works best when it is mapped, assigned, and reviewed.
A topic list is only useful if managers can connect it to staff groups, course assignments, certificates, renewals, and local competence checks. ACSTRA helps organise the knowledge-based part of that workflow and keeps evidence easier to review.
Decide which topics are statutory, mandatory, or locally required for each staff group.
Map each topic to job role, care setting, risk level, and practical duties.
Assign online learning for knowledge-based induction and refresher needs.
Use local observation, supervision, or practical assessment where competence cannot be evidenced online.
Keep certificates, completion dates, renewal dates, and exceptions visible to managers.
Topic Training FAQs
What healthcare training topics are commonly mandatory in England?
Common topics include fire safety, health and safety, infection prevention and control, safeguarding adults and children, moving and handling, information governance, equality and diversity, conflict resolution, and resuscitation where the role requires it. The exact list should be set by the employer based on legal duties, national guidance, local policy, the care setting, and the work staff perform.
Are statutory and mandatory training topics the same?
Not exactly. Statutory training usually comes from legislation or regulation. Mandatory training is defined by the employer because it is required for the role, service, risk profile, or local policy. In practice, organisations often manage both together through a statutory and mandatory training programme.
How often should topic-based training be refreshed?
Refresher periods should be set by the employer using current guidance, risk assessment, role requirements, and local policy. Frameworks such as the Core Skills Training Framework help employers map subjects, learning outcomes, and refresher expectations, but organisations still need to apply that to their own workforce.
Can online training cover all mandatory healthcare topics?
Online training works well for knowledge-based topics and refreshers. Some subjects still need practical teaching, observed practice, supervision, or workplace competence assessment, especially where staff carry out hands-on care, moving and handling, resuscitation, or delegated clinical tasks.
Next step
Build a topic-led training route for your staff team.
Start from a topic page, browse individual courses, or use bundles when you need multiple mandatory training subjects grouped for a care service.