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  • 1989

    Class founded

    Class founded as a healthcare and medical publishing business, under the imprint Class Health

  • Class starts representing Jones & Bartlett Learning

    Class represents Jones & Bartlett, selling and distributing their academic and professional titles across Europe

    Class Legal imprint starts publishing for family lawyers

    The first annual edition of At A Glance is published, on behalf of the Family Law Bar Association (FLBA)

    1991

  • 1996

    Lorna Downing joins Class

  • Class opens Bridgwater, Somerset office

    2009

  • 2009:

    Nancy Caroline, UK edition, is published

  • Standby CPD first published

    2010

  • 2013

    JRCALC Guidelines 2013 are first published by Class

    JRCALC Guidelines 2013 are first published by Class, a seminal addition to our list

  • iCPG, our JRCALC guidelines app, is launched

         

    2016

  • 2017

    Class partners with the College of Paramedics

    Class partners with the College of Paramedics to publish a series of titles by paramedics for paramedics. Decision Making in Paramedic Practice, written by Andy Collen, is the first title published

  • Class celebrates 30 years!

    2019

  • 2020

    ParaPass is launched!

    Release of new Primary Care range

  • ParaPass wins the Stationers‘ Award for ’Best Customer Experience’

    Class wins two IPG Awards

    Academic and Professional Publisher of the Year Award and Young Publisher of the Year Award.

    Class wins a BMA in the Covid-19 Category for our title ‘Community Palliative Care and Covid-19’

    2021

  • 2022

    St John Ambulance: First Aid FAST app is released!

    Responder Plus (previously CFR Plus) wins the Stationers’ Award for ‘Marketing including Communications’

         

    Class shortlisted at the IPG Awards, in the Academic & Professional Publisher of the Year category

    Team of Class ‘mountaineers’ scale the heights of Snowdon (at night), raising over £3k for The Ambulance Staff Charity (TASC)

  • ParaFolio, our CPD management app, is launched

    Class shortlisted at the IPG Awards, in the Academic & Professional Publisher of the Year category

    For the first time, Class shortlisted at The British Book Awards

    Launch of Class VIPs!

    2023

  • 2024

    Class celebrates 35 years!

    Class shortlisted at the IPG Awards, in the Academic & Professional Publisher of the Year category … again!

    For the second time, Class shortlisted at The British Book Awards

    Class is awarded The Investors in People Award for Best Culture

  • Class wins at The British Book Awards!

    Class shortlisted at the IPG Awards, in the Academic & Professional Publisher of the Year category … again!

    Class win Academic, Educational & Professional Publisher of the Year at The British Book Awards 2025

    ParaFolio for NQPs shortlisted in the Education Technology category at the Stationers’ Innovation Excellence Awards 2025

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    2025

“The JRCALC Guidelines are the established standard of practice for all ambulance paramedics across the UK. Class Professional have been the exclusive publisher of this essential material since 2013, and have driven JRCALC forward. Initially published as a loose leaf printed file, Class have transformed presentation and style for the Association of Ambulance Chief Executives (AACE) who commission the work. In 2013 the move to fully bound was successfully delivered and  in 2016 Class Professional developed the JRCALC app on their own initiative, to provide us with a technology solution. This has now been adopted by every single NHS Ambulance Service in the country, and is making a real difference to the way our clinicians deliver patient care. Paramedics can now access the most up to date guidelines on the move, using clever search and drug dosage filtering information. In recent years, the technology platform has developed even further, allowing ambulance services to push out urgent bulletins to our staff. The JRCALC app is now established as an essential reference and communication tool. AACE are delighted that Class engages the Ambulance Trusts in the continued development of the project, hosting bi-annual user group meetings. These are some of the best attended national ambulance service meetings all year.”

Steve Irving, Executive Officer, Association of Ambulance Chief Executives

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