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All doctors in EMICS are volunteers who attend emergency incidents at the request of and in support of staff from the EMAS. All EMICS doctors receive no payment for their work with EMICS, working voluntarily over and above their normal general practice or hospital work. They work alongside and in support of paramedics and crews from the East Midlands Ambulance Service, as and when they are available.

These doctors are all very experienced and fully trained in trauma work and are equipped to perform life saving interventions at the scene of an incident such as industrial or road traffic accident or rail crash. They carry with them a wide range of specialist equipment to deal with the serious trauma and other emergencies that might be encountered in their day to day emergency work.

Although all the doctors work for EMICS on a totally voluntary basis, the Scheme, which is a registered charity, urgently needs to raise funds to purchase more of the specialist equipment that the doctors carry so that more doctors can be recruited. 5 EMICS is entirely funded by donations from members of the public and legacies; there is no funding from any government source.

A typical set of equipment for the doctors cost around £25,000. EMICS is a registered charity and receives no financial support from any government source. Anyone wishing to support the work of EMICS can do so by telephoning the Treasurer on 07736711199 or by emailing info@emics.org.uk

EMICS is a registered charity. Registered address and details are displayed at the bottom of the page.

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How you can support us:

1) Anyone wishing to support the work of EMICS can do so by telephoning the Treasurer on 07736711199 or by emailing info@emics.org.uk

2) An easy way to help us is to donate through Just Giving. Please click on this link to the Just Giving Website that so many use for charitable giving especially if you are a tax payer as your donation goes so much further

3) Using our Gift Aid link, for further details of this, please click here to go to our Gift Aid page on our website

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Press releases

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Waitrose Customers Support Work of Volunteer Emergency Doctors

Shoppers at the Oadby, Leicestershire, branch of Waitrose have helped make a valuable contribution to the work of volunteer emergency doctors from East Midlands Immediate Care Scheme (EMICS), a local charity.

Waitrose have made a donation of £550 to the EMICS charity from their monthly charity donations for the month of September. The proportion of their donation going to particular charities is determined by their customers who make a selection from nominated charities by dropping tokens in a selection box in the store.

The cheque was handed over to Garth Lee, who is the charity’s Honorary Press Officer who said, “This donation will be a very useful contribution to the costs that will be incurred in purchasing equipment for a newly recruited doctor. I thank all shoppers at Waitrose, Oadby who supported our nomination at the store”

Newark Volunteer Emergency Doctor Attends Consecutive Incidents January 2012

A volunteer emergency doctor from East Midlands Immediate Care Scheme (EMICS) spent all this morning (18th January 2012) attending emergency calls in Nottinghamshire.

Dr Mark Folman a general practitioner in practice in Newark, Nottinghamshire missed his regular surgery duties this morning to attend two serious road traffic collisions. His first call-out was at 0747 to a four car collision on the A614 south of Farnsfield where he assisted ambulance crews in stabilising a male casualty with serious head injuries. Dr Folman then accompanied the patient on his transfer by road to the Queens Medical Centre in Nottingham where he is reported to be in a stable condition.

The second incident also occurred on the A614, near to Edwinstowe, Nottingham, when a lorry was in collision with a car resulting in very serious injuries to the car driver who was transferred to Kings Mill Hospital, Sutton-in-Ashfield, Notts. by road ambulance, accompanied by Dr Folman. The patient was described as being in a very serious condition.

The Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire Air Ambulance and crews from East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) attended both incidents. Dr Folman commented “The team working between all the medical personnel at both scenes was excellent and made sure we did the best for both patients. I am grateful to my colleagues at the Fountains Medical Centre in Newark for covering my planned surgery appointments which enabled me to assist at these incidents”. Dr Folman is currently the chairman of the East Midlands Immediate Care Scheme.

Volunteer Emergency Doctor Attends Victim of RTC at Markfield, Leicestershire January 2012

A volunteer emergency doctor from East Midlands Immediate Care Scheme (EMICS) attended an injured victim of a 3 vehicle road traffic incident on Wednesday 18th January 2012 at around 17.30 hrs near Markfield, Leicestershire at the junction of Hill Lane and Forest Road.

Dr Simeon Rayner, a general practitioner in Billesdon, Leicestershire was called from his home near Ashby, Leicestershire to assist the crew from East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) after one of the vehicles left the road in trying to avoid a van involved in the collision and ‘catapulted’ across a hedge landing in a dark and muddy field approximately 100m from the road. Dr Rayner attended the driver of this vehicle and stabilised him before he could be extricated by the Leicestershire Fire and Rescue Service team who had to remove the roof of the vehicle. The driver suffered probable neck injuries and a broken leg and was transferred by land ambulance to Leicester Royal Infirmary. Dr Rayner gave the patient pain killing injections at the scene. Other people involved in the incident were described as walking wounded and were dealt with by the ambulance crews.

Northamptonshire Volunteer Emergency Doctor Earns MBE

The work of a volunteer emergency doctor from East Midlands Immediate Care Scheme (EMICS) has been recognised with an award in the New Year’s Honour’s list (1st January 2012).

Dr Peter Gordon has been awarded an MBE in recognition of his work as a volunteer emergency doctor who turns out to support East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) at any time of the day or night. Dr Gordon is a retired General Practitioner from Wellingborough in Northamptonshire and is now a part time Medical Advisor and Forensic Examiner to Northamptonshire Police Force.

Dr Gordon first began to work as a volunteer emergency doctor when, in 1976, with Dr Alan Sutton they established the Northamptonshire GP Accident Scheme. This Scheme was set-up at the request of Northamptonshire Ambulance Controllers and was integrated into EMICS in 2007. (EMICS was established in 2004 with the merger of other similar Schemes in the east Midlands when the regional ambulance services came together to form EMAS). At one stage, in the late 1990s Dr Gordon was the only doctor in Northamptonshire operating the Scheme there; he is now one of four EMICS doctors who serve the county.

Dr Gordon said on hearing about the award “I am totally surprised but honoured to be awarded the MBE, I will need time to get used to it. Even after all this time I am pleased to be able to continue supporting the ambulance service in this way”.

Volunteer Emergency Doctors Serve Nottingham December 2011. Nottingham Evening Post feature article.

Nottingham is one of the counties in the region served by a little known emergency doctors’ charity East Midlands Immediate Care Scheme (EMICS).

Dr ‘Bob’ Winter, a Consultant in the Intensive Care Unit and in anaesthetics at Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham (QMC) is one of the EMICS doctors. He is also an instructor and Course Director for advanced and pre-hospital life support courses and Medical Lead for the Mid Trent Critical Care Network.

Apart from his professional medical roles, and being one of the EMICS doctors, Bob is a trustee of the Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire Air Ambulance (LNAA) and often serves as duty doctor with the LNAA. Since joining the EMICS just two years ago he has attended around 70 emergencies at the request of East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS).

When asked why he volunteers for such a role, Dr Winter said “I have had a long interest in pre-hospital care through working with motor sport at Donington Park and this is an opportunity to give something back and contribute to the work of the ambulance service”

South Nottinghamshire is also served by another EMICS doctor who is a frequent visitor to QMC with his emergency patients; he is Dr Nick Foster, a general practitioner in the South Nottinghamshire village of Gotham. Nick has been with EMICS for the last 22 years and was a doctor on the scene at the Kegworth air disaster. Nick turns out for EMICS to an emergency on average four per week.

Another Nottinghamshire based volunteer doctor is the current EMICS chairman Dr Mark Folman who has a practice at Newark, he was also born and bred in the county.

Emergency Doctor Assists Bus Driver Injured In Collision. December 2011

A volunteer emergency doctor from East Midlands Immediate Care Scheme (EMICS) was called on duty early this morning to assist paramedics with a bus driver seriously injured in a road traffic collision involving his bus and two lorries on the A15 near Waddingham, Lincolnshire today (Tuesday 13th December 2011)

Dr Mark Folman, who is a general practitioner in practice in Newark, Nottinghamshire and currently the chairman of EMICS was called at 07.16 am by the East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) to give assistance to the EMAS, and other, paramedics in caring for and sedating the bus driver during the one hour extrication process from the bus which had been in collision with two lorries. Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue Service was in charge of the extrication. Dr Folman accompanied the injured patient to hospital on the Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire Air Ambulance where he is reported to be in a stable condition.

The incident occurred on the A15 between the B1205 Kirton Road junction in Waddingham and the A631 junction at Caenby Corner. The patients in the lorries suffered only minor injuries and luckily there were no passengers on the bus.

Gray Doctors Assist at School Bus Incident. December 2011

Two volunteer emergency doctors from East Midlands Immediate Care Scheme (EMICS) worked together to assess the health of 30 schoolchildren and their teachers whose coach had been involved in a collision with a lorry on 12th December 2011.

Dr Tim Gray MBE who is General Practitioner in a practice in Oakham, Rutland, and a volunteer emergency doctor with EMICS attended the incident at Burton Lazars, Leicestershire on the A606 at approx 15.30 hours to assist paramedics from East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) in assessing approx 30 children who were on the bus. Fortunately there were no serious injuries.

Dr James Gray another volunteer EMICS doctor also attended but in he was there in his official capacity as EMAS Medical Director, as he happened to be in the area at the time

EMICS have also been involved in the following National Major Incidents: