Bookings are now being taken for the Paediatric Emergency Medicine Course tele-education course starting on 19^th April 2012.  

The 9 week 1 hour course will offer you the chance to refresh &/or advance your knowledge on a variety of topics including:

• Child with fever & Meningitis
• LTRI & Pneumonia
• Seizures
• Asthma
• Epiglottitis & Croup
• Head Injury
• Allergy & Anaphylaxis
• Gastroenteritis & Dehydration
• Paediatric Pain relief

Spaces are limited so book early to avoid disappointment!

For more information, please click on the forms below:

Tele-Education Course Info

Tele-Education Booking Form

Ideas? What do we love? We love Scotland, rural life, nature, changing seasons and of course, all things Christmassy.              

We will select a shortlist of our favourite cards, and will invite our followers on Facebook to let us know which their favourites are.

The most popular cards will then be available to purchase through the Sandpiper Trust website from September 2012. The proceeds from the sales of the Christmas cards and note cards will go directly towards the provision of pre-hospital emergency medical equipment in Rural Scotland

Please send us a picture or photograph, preferably by email to sandpiper@dowalty.co.uk or by post to The Sandpiper Trust, Dowalty, Crathes, Banchory AB31 5JJ.  If sending your pictures electronically, please ensure that they are the highest resolution possible (300 dpi if possible).Remember to include contact details. All entries must be received by the 30^th April 2012. If you have any questions regarding the design of these cards, please call us on 01330 844606.

The DIMC examination is held in Edinburgh by the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. The Examination is open to registered doctors, paramedics and nurses. The programme presented here has three purposes. Firstly to give you an insight to the exam so that you can decide if you would like to enter. Then there are a series of revision modules linked to the present examination syllabus. Then finally if you are to sit the examination a series of modules to polish your examination technique.

This programme is not a substitute for other reading or clinical practice but is designed to support your preparation for the DIMC.

The programme has two opening presentations that are open to everyone. If you wish to go ahead there is a small fee by way of a donation to BASICS Scotland and some forms to complete. You will then have access to the system.  The structure has four main chapters – the Library which contains useful papers and other documents – the core Modules – a Discussion Board and finally Examination Practice.

This programme tries to support your preparation for the examination as well as challenge your thinking and clinical practice. Your feedback is always welcome and indeed is crucial to the future development of the programme. 

To dowload the booking form click here

To download the Code of Conduct click here

Using kit from the Sandpiper bag the patients were stabilised and extricated before being transported to Ninewells Emergency Department.

Link to accident on BBC news page

We would like to invite all rural healthcare professionals to come to Nairn and help us celebrate 10 years of BASICS Scotland.

More information on the day’s events will follow shortly!!!!

Bookings are now being taken for the adult emergency medicine course tele-education course starting on January 12^th 2012.  

The 10 week 1 hour course will offer you the chance to refresh &/or advance your knowledge on a variety of topics including:

• Breathlessness/COPD
• Asthma
• Seizures
• Head Injuries
• Epistaxsis
• Chest pain & Thrombolysis
• TIA & CVA
• Wounds/Tetanus
• Pain relief

Spaces are limited so book early to avoid disappointment!

1pm session now full!

For more information, please click on the forms below:

Tele-Education Course Info 


Tele-Education Booking Form

Since the launch of Help for Heroes in 2007, a staggering £100 million has been raised to help the wounded soldiers that are returning from the front line. The money raised from our event will go towards ensuring that “those wounded while in service get the very best support; for life” through the “Defence Recovery Capability (DRC)” program – “a comprehensive pathway to help the wounded launch back into the next phase of their lives.”