Places are still available on the IMC Part 1 course being held at Stirling Management Centre on 17th - 19th May 2013. For more information, please contact Victoria at courses@basics-scotland.org.uk
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Two of our newest BASICS Scotland responders, Dr. Julie Gray and Dr. Kris McLaughlin both from the Grampian area were presented their Sandpiper Bags by Emeli Sande. The award winning singing sensation presented the bags at her recent homecoming concert in Aberdeen.
Claire Maitland from the Sandpiper Trust stated “It was a wonderful honour for the Sandpiper Trust when Emeli Sande...
Course places are still available for the upcoming Paediatric Tele-education course starting on Thursday 11th April 2013.
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
Asthma
Epiglottitis & Croup
Seizures
Head Injury
Allergy ...
John Pritchard, MBE, one of our BASICS responders, took to the catwalk on Saturday 16th March at the Edinburgh Charity Fashion Show. The show was a huge success with over 700 people in attendance and all proceeds from the event will be kindly donated to The Sandpiper Trust and Cancer Support Scotland. To see JP strut his stuff in full ...
Bookings are now being taken for the BASICS Scotland Annual Conference which is being held on Saturday 31st August at the Westerwood Hotel, Cumbernauld. Numbers are limited, so book early to avoid disappointment!! Click here for more information. ...
Bookings are now being taken for the Paediatric Emergency Medicine Course web based tele-education course starting on Thursday 11th April 2013.
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
Asthma
Epiglottitis & Croup
Seizures
Head I...
Places are still available on the IMC Part 1 course being held at Stonefield Castle, Tarbert on Friday 8th - Sunday 10th March 2013. For more information, please contact Victoria at courses@basics-scotland.org.uk...
A Fife BASICS Responder successfully resuscitated a patient in cardiac arrest today, the third this year. The patient who had collapsed in a fife town received CPR prior to arrival of SAS paramedics and the BASICS Responder. The patient's heart was successfully restarted and Sandpiper equipment was used to stabilise him. A bystander commented that "Vinnie Jones kept popp...
Do you know where your local BASICS Scotland responder is? Do you have a local BASICS Scotland responder at all?! Dr John Ferris has complied a map of all the responders in the South East of Scotland. If you live or work in one of the blue shaded areas then you are based in an area of critical need - WE NEED YOU…..to come on board and help us save lives. If you are interested in having ...
BASICS Scotland and The Sandpiper Trust are pleased to announce that the one and only Mr John Pritchard MBE, will be taking to the catwalk on Saturday 16th March to strut his stuff at the Edinburgh Charity Fashion Show. Dressed in PPE with a Sandpiper Bag, John is joining the models as a thank you to the Edinburgh University Charity Fashion show for choosing The Sandpiper Trust as one of...
BASICS Doctor John Ferris treated an elderly female who was trapped in her vehicle after hitting a lamp-post in Abernethy, Fife this afternoon. Using sandpiper equipment her injuries were splinted and she was rapidly extricated to Ninewells Hospital in Dundee.....all whilst being filmed for a BBC Documentary!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-21523731...
A team of BASICS Scotland instructors responded to a major incident at the Lecht Ski Centre on the afternoon of Feb 12th when a chairlift derailed injuring 6 people and leaving almost 40 others stranded. Dr Tom Heneghan from Dufftown was one of the first on scene, followed by his GP partner Dr Ben Price. Dr Mike Langran from Aviemore was called to act as the MIO for the incident. Just by chance, t...
Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
Faculty of Pre-Hospital Care
Scottish Region
Immediate Care Education Events
Spring 2013
Wednesday Management of Pelvic & Femoral Fractures
13th February &...
Quote from the Sandpiper bag holder: "Here is a photo of my Sandpiper Bag at the top of the Slalom run at the Lecht Open. It looks beautiful but it was freezing and blowing a hoolie! Finlay Mickel, one of Britain’s best ever Downhill skiers, competed at 2 Olympics, and now coach to the Scottish team is the in the background in blue. I've taken the bag to plenty of ski races at the Lecht ...
GLASGOW 2014: The Commonwealth Games
23 July and 3 August 2014
Memories of the Olympic Games in London 2012 will remain with us with for years, and their legacy will live on through our children and young people. Many volunteers, from all walks of life, gave their time and energy to make the Olympics the success that it was. Many others would liked to have bee...
BASICS Scotland is pleased to launch an exciting new teaching project with the support of The Sandpiper Trust. The new tele-education Immediate Medical Care (IMC) course aims to update rural health professional’s skills as well as knowledge.
Course participants have been provided with a Sandpiper Pod, which includes an airway head and additional training equipment. The fun...
BASICS Scotland is pleased to congratulate our past chairman, John Pritchard, on his recent award of MBE in the New Year’s honours list 2013 for his services to BASICS Scotland and the Scottish Ambulance Service.
Further congratulations are extended to Jessie Colquhoun who was awarded an MBE for services to Healthcare in Ardnamurchan, Argyll and Gary Hardacre who was awarded the Quee...
BASICS Scotland would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!Check out our festive dance below:
Personalize funny videos and birthday eCards at JibJab!
Click on the dance to change the dancer!!!...
BASICS Scotland is delighted to announce that next year’s annual conference is going to be held on Saturday 31st August at the Westerwood Hotel, Cumbernauld.
Accommodation will be available from just £95DBB and will include an invitation to our evening black tie dinner evening event on Saturday 31st August.
Booking forms will be available in the new year so the keep the...
BASICS Scotland is delivering an up-to-date refresher Adult Immediate Medical Care Course by video-conferencing.
Topics will include;
Scene Safety/Mechanisms of Injury
Spinal Management
Patient Assessment
Airway, Breathing & Circulation Management
Secondary Survey
Packaging for transport
Live RTC Scenario with participant interaction&nb...
BASICS Scotland is pleased to announce that a new member of IT staff, Mr Craig Stewart, has been offered the post of IT Administrator/facilitator and will join the admin staff at Sandpiper House.
Craig will be responsible for further development of the BASICS Scotland website, particularly the Virtual Learning Environment. In addition, Craig will also have responsibility for producing educatio...
On Sunday 21st October, a team from BASICS Scotland including Graeme Ramage, Chelsee Henderson, Kirsty Laird and Dr Colville Laird took on the 165ft drop from the Forth Rail Bridge to raise money for The Sandpiper Trust. Thanks to the generous support we have had, we managed to reach our target of £2000 which meant that Dr Laird took on the abseil challenge dressed as Batman!!!
Despi...
On October 21st, a team from BASICS Scotland including Kirsty Laird, Chelsee Henderson and Graeme Ramage will be taking on the Forth Rail Bridge and abseiling the 165ft drop (we have calculated that this will be 33 times the height of Chelsee!!).
All money raised will be going to the worthwhile cause of The Sandpiper Trust, a charity dedicated to providing rural doctors, nurses and paramedics ...
Dr John Ferris attended a 58 year old jogger who had collapsed in St. Andrews yesterday. The patient was in cardiac arrest and receiving CPR from friends. By using his defibrillator supplied by The Sandpiper Trust, Dr Ferris was able to defibrillate the patient's heart back into a normal rhythm. On reviewing the patient today at Ninewells hospital, he was sitting up and having a cup of t...
Elgin doctor, Pam Hardy was last week called on to help free a badly injured worker at a grain store. The injured man had had his arm dragged into machinery at the bottom of a concrete pit and is understood to have lost part of his arm in the incident. For the full story, please click here. The story is continued here....
Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
Faculty of Pre-Hospital Care
Scottish Region
Immediate Care Education Events
Autumn 2012
Wednesday Management of Traumatic Cardiac Arrest & Catastrophic
10th October &a...
EmergencySMS Service
This is a very useful additional way to contact emergency service in areas with poor mobile telephone reception; sometimes you can text when you cannot make mobile calls.
The emergencySMS service is an add-on to the existing 999 and 18000 services that are available in the UK. Your SMS text message will be connected to 999 through the Text Relay 18000 se...
On Saturday 15th September 2012, BASICS Scotland held its 10th annual conference at the Newton Hotel, Nairn.
The conference was a big success and we would like to thank everyone who attended, including our sponsors, speakers and delegates.
We would also like to thank the Newton Hotel for putting up with us, especially the vocal renditions on Friday night!!!
Next year’s confer...
When the Olympics came to Hampden the medical teams covering the event were keen to have the latest up to date emergency bags at their disposal.
What else than the Sandpiper bag was up to the job. This fully kitted Emergency Bag is recognised as the ‘must have’ for Emergency Care Personnel to have in the Pre-hospital care setting.
Three bags were on duty during the wome...
Bookings are now being taken for the Adult Emergency Medicine Course tele-education course starting on Thursday 6th September 2012.
The 10 week 1 hour course will offer you the chance to refresh &/or advance your knowledge on a variety of topics including:
LVF/LRTI
Asthma
Allergy and Anaphylaxis
Seizures
Head Injuries
Epistaxsis
Chest pain &...
3 BASICS Doctors (Drs Alex Colinson, Alan Copland & John Ferris) attended a serious RTC on the A92 in Fife on Monday.Working with the Scottish Ambulance Service (including BASICS paramedic Andy Walker) they treated a critically injured patient trapped in a car providing analgesia, sedation and chest surgery. With the Tayside Trauma Team present, the patient was anaesthetised and flown to N...
Spaces for the upcoming BASICS Scotland 10th Annual Conference on Saturday 15th September 2012 at the Newton Hotel, Nairn are going fast so if you would like to get a ticket before they have gone, please fill in the attached form and return to the BASICS Scotland office.
This year’s conference promises to be bigger and better than before, celebrating 10 years of BASICS Scotland.
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On May 26th/27th 2012, Ian Darcy, Senior Nurse at Dr Gray's, Elgin, will be taking part in the Edinburgh half marathon to raise money for BASICS Scotland. Despite injuring his knee in training, he will still be powering on to help us provide high quality pre-hospital emergency care to health professionals in Scotland.
To help Ian reach his target, please click on the li...
BASICS Scotland is deeply saddened by the sudden death of Dr Rachel Weldon, GP for the small islands’ of Eigg, Muck, Rum and Canna. Rachel was a Sandpiper Bag holder and understood the difficulties of working in a remote area only too well. Our thoughts go out to her family, friends and local communities where her support and presence will be greatly missed.
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Places are still available on the Major Incident Medical Management & Support (MIMMS) Course we are holding at the Newton Hotel, Nairn on Friday 25th – Sunday 27th May 2012. Please find attached a draft programme to give an overview of the times and topics covered.
If you would interested in attending or if you have any queries, please contact Victoria courses@basics-scotland...
Aired on Friday 13th April, our very own John Pritchard, Immediate Past Chairman and BASICS responder, was featured in Channel 5’s Highland Emergency attending to an injured walker on Ben Vorlich. To view the episode, click here...
This year celebrates 10 years of BASICS Scotland and to mark this momentous occasion, we are holding our 10th Annual Conference & AGM on Saturday 15th September 2012 at the Newton Hotel, Nairn.
Numbers are limited this year, so book early to avoid disappointment!!
Please click here for more information on the day’s events....
BASICS Scotland is pleased to announce that a new member of clinical staff will be joining the organisation from April. Mr Graeme Ramage has been offered the post of Sandpiper Fellow and will join the Director of Education and Assistant Director of Education in directing courses. In addition, Graeme will also be involved in expanding BASICS Scotland’s portfolio of courses through the dev...
Paediatric Tele-Education Course – April 2012
Bookings are now being taken for the Paediatric Emergency Medicine Course tele-education course starting on 19th 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
L...
This year we would like to have Christmas cards and note cards chosen and designed by you to be sold via our website. So if you’re a keen photographer, a budding artist or have something more creative up your sleeve, we would love to hear from you!
Ideas? What do we love? We love Scotland, rural life, nature, changing seasons and of course, all things Christmassy. &...
Diploma in Immediate Medical Care Preparation Programme
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 mo...
BASICS Doctor John Ferris attended a high speed RTC in Fife this morning. He worked together with the Scottish Ambulance Service and the Tayside Trauma Team to treat two patient trapped in their vehicles.
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...
This week, BASICS Scotland welcomed the delivery of a new van. The new van will be used, in addition to the old van, to transport our equipment around Scotland from Shetland to the Borders....
BASICS Scotland’s 10th Anniversary Conference is going to be held at the Newton Hotel, Nairn on Saturday 15th September 2012.
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!!!!...
BASICS Responder, Andrew Walker, is currently on an expedition to Everest base camp to as part of a team to raise money for Prostate Cancer UK. Before he left, Andy was kindly given 3 Sandpiper empty bags by The Sandpiper Trust to donate the Himalayan Rescue Association, the first of which was handed over in Kathmandu. The second bag was handed over in the village of Pheriche, located 4200m up Eve...
Bookings now being taken for Tele-Education 2012
Bookings are now being taken for the adult emergency medicine course tele-education course starting on January 12th 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 ...
BASICS Scotland would like to thank all the delegates who donated to the Help for Heroes collection at the annual conference held on Saturday 10th September at Carnoustie Golf Hotel.
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 ...
The importance of medical equipment provided the Sandpiper Trust is reported and includes interviews with Newcastleton GP Dr Howard Kennedy and patron Gavin HastingsNews link click here...
TAYSIDE POLICE AWARDS CEREMONY
Held on 3rd March 2011
Awards presented by Chief Constable Justine Curran
and Tayside Joint Police Board Convener, Councillor Ian Mackintosh.
Royal Humane Society Testimonial on Parchment to Mr Martin Farnworth (unable to attend) Dr Catrina Hewitt & Mr Liam McKenzie (Perthshire Incident)
On the afternoon of Wednesday, December 9, 200...
Dec 31, 2010 New Year Honours: Knighthood for war casualties doctor
31 December 10 00:30
The doctor in charge of treating injured soldiers flown back from Afghanistan and Iraq has received a knighthood in the New Year's Honours.
Professor Keith Porter, from the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine in Birmingham, said it was a "great honour" to be recognised.
Professor Robin Murray, an...
