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 ...
