BASICS Scotland
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The British Association for Immediate Care Scotland (BASICS Scotland) is an organisation involved with prehospital care. It has the aims of providing encouragement and aid with the formation of immediate care schemes and to provide training to support those working in prehospital care. It shares its origins with the British Association for Immediate Care (BASICS), which has UK wide coverage. In 1993, the British Association for Immediate Care began running prehospital care courses in Scotland, which were met with a warm welcome and it became clear there was a large audience for such education,[1] especially in remote and rural areas of Scotland. This need for training and organisational leadership became clearer after the 1994 Scotland RAF Chinook crash on the Mull of Kintyre. This led to the training provided by BASICS to be modified for a more rural setting, and to the development of BASICS Scotland as a separate organisation in 2002.
Formation | 1977 / 2002 |
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Type | |
Legal status | Charity |
Headquarters | Aberruthven |
Region | Scotland |
Chairperson | John Pritchard |
Vice Chairperson | Andrew Bayliss |
CEO | Lorna Duff |
Website | basics-scotland |
BASICS Scotland's charitable activities span two distinct areas in relation to prehospital care;
- Support of the voluntary responder network of doctors, nurses and paramedics who attend 999 emergency calls across Scotland,[2] and
- The innovation and provision of high-quality education in the field of prehospital and emergency medicine.