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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.
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.
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 07977112732 or by visiting www.emics.org.uk
EMICS is a registered charity. Registered address and details are displayed at the bottom of the page.
Anyone wishing to support the work of EMICS can do so by telephoning the Treasurer on 07977112732 or by emailing foster@emics.org.uk
Recent EMICS News, Activities and Press releases 2010
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Wedding Gifts go to Volunteer Emergency Doctors’ Charity Nov 2010
One of the volunteer emergency doctors from East Midlands Immediate Care Scheme (EMICS) will this week (Thursday 14th October) receive a donation on behalf of EMICS from a nurse who recently requested that donations be made in lieu of wedding presents when she was married on 9th July 2010.
The presentation will be made at 2.00 pm at the headquarters of the Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Rutland Air Ambulance (DLRAA) at East Midlands Airport, at Castle Donington, Leicestershire Dr Tim Gray will receive the donation from Mrs. Alison Burton, who is a Practice Nurse at the surgery in Oakham, Rutland where Dr Gray is a partner. She married Mr. Gerry Burton.
The other half of the total donation will be made to the DLRAA. Alison made the decision to ask for donations in lieu of wedding presents because she did not feel they required gifts for themselves and decided to ask for donations to a local charity that any of us may need at sometime.
Dr Gray was the founder of EMICS in 1984 and was Chairman until he retired from that position in June of this year. Over his period of service with EMICS he has attended more than 1000 emergencies as a result of call-outs from East Midlands Ambulance Service
Students at Thomas Estley Community College, of Station Road, Broughton Astley, Leicestershire LE9 6PT, will this week handover the results of an fundraising enterprise week to a volunteer emergency doctor from East Midlands Immediate Care Scheme (EMICS). Nov 2010
Dr Nick Foster will receive the cheque (expected to be in excess of £400) on behalf of EMICS on Friday 15th October at 2.30 pm at the College.
The funds have been raised by the sale of products designed and made by the students during an off-timetable enterprise week in which they learn some of the basics of business.
The EMICS charity was selected by the school as Dr Nick Foster attended the scene of a serious road traffic collision 6 years ago in which one of the College’s English teachers, Miss Sarah Lee, was very seriously injured. Dr Foster took care of her at the scene and went with the ambulance that took her to Queens Medical Centre at Nottingham where she was detained for a total of 19 days before beginning 6 months rehabilitation which deferred her commencement as teacher at the College.
Mr Tim Moralee, Principal of the College, said of the event “this is an exceptional service and Sarah is testimony to the dedication, skill and absolute importance of Dr. Foster and his colleagues’ work. The College is proud to be associated with them and very happy to raise funds to support their work” Dr Foster is a General Practitioner with a practice in Kegworth and is one of the most experienced doctors in EMICS having attended more than 2000 call-outs from East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) over the last 21 years.
Major Challenge for New Officers of Volunteer Emergency Doctors’ Charity: June 2010
New officers have recently been appointed for the East Midlands Immediate Care Scheme (EMICS) which provides a supply of doctors who volunteer their own time to attend medical emergencies around the East Midlands region.
At the recent general meeting of the Scheme, which is a registered charity, the following appointments were approved:
Chairman: Dr Mark Folman, a GP in practice in Newark, Nottinghamshire
Vice Chairman: Dr Peter Holden, a GP in practice in Matlock, Derbyshire
Secretary/Treasurer: Ms Tracey Fisher is a Trainee Accountant at a Nottingham firm of Accountants.
The registered office for the charity will in future be c/o East Midlands Ambulance Service HQ in Nottingham. All these appointments will become effective from 1st July.
Dr Folman said of his appointment “I feel honoured and privileged to be chosen by my colleagues to chair the charity over the next three years. I hope that we can increase our coverage across the East Midlands so more people get the benefit of the care that we provide”
Mr Garth Lee, who was elected as the charity’s honorary press officer said of the appointments “The new officers face a real challenge in the coming year; as well as having to having to respond to call-outs from the East Midlands Ambulance Service they have to promote fund raising to secure additional funds necessary to equip new recruits. £50,000 will be needed to equip just two new recruits who we expect to qualify to join us this coming year.”
Each county will have a representative on the committee and these will be:
Dr Andrew Davies for Derbyshire
Dr Tim Gray for Leicestershire and Rutland
Major Leon Roberts for Lincolnshire
Dr John Trenfield for Northamptonshire
Dr Bob Winter for Nottinghamshire
In addition there will be representatives on the committee from East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS).
The retiring chairman, Dr Tim Gray of Oakham, Rutland, who was the founder of the scheme will take the lead in fund raising activities for the charity.
EMICS currently has just 17 doctors who are operational in the East Midlands and last year they responded to a total of 885 call-outs to emergencies of which more than 240 were classified as serious. All 3 of the doctors that work on the Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire Air Ambulance are volunteers from EMICS whilst three of the doctors that work on the Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Rutland Air Ambulance are volunteers from EMICS.
Local Volunteer Emergency Doctor’s Award in Birthday Honours: June 2010
The work of a volunteer emergency doctor from East Midlands Immediate Care Scheme (EMICS) has been recognised with an award in the Queen’s Birthday honour’s list.
Major Leon Roberts a doctor in the Royal Army Medical Corps has been awarded an MBE in the military division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. Until recently Major Roberts was based at MOD North Luffenham in Rutland and had a home in Rutland but is presently on a posting as Medical Officer with the Irish Guards in Windsor although he is still available for voluntary EMICS duties in the East Midlands when he is at home in Lincolnshire. He has already completed two operational tours in Iraq and anticipates being deployed for a tour of duty in Afghanistan later in the year.
Major Roberts has been given the award ‘for services to the army and community whilst working at MOD North Luffenham between 2007–2010’. Major Roberts said on hearing the news “'Amie and I are still shocked about the nomination and award. It really is an exciting time and we are thrilled by this recognition.”
Major Roberts started his voluntary work in 2004 whilst he was based in Catterick, North Yorkshire, and subsequently joined EMICS in 2007 when he moved to Rutland and during his period there has been called out to an emergency almost once a week. He gained his Diploma in Immediate Care (Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh) in September 2008
Volunteer Emergency Doctor Assesses Patients at A1 Collision: May 2010
A volunteer emergency doctor from East Midlands Immediate Care Scheme (EMICS) was called out at 9.20 yesterday morning (Monday 24th May) to assist ambulance crews at the scene of a road traffic collision on the slip road to the A1 at Colsterworth, Rutland.
The incident involved a collision between a 7.4 ton van and a car as a result of which the van ended up amongst some trees and the car suffered significant damage although one passenger was able to extricate himself from the car. Dr Mark Folman was the EMICS doctor in attendance the scene and was able to arrange the transfer of the injured car driver and a passenger to Peterborough District Hospital by road ambulance at 10.20 am. Dr. Folman discharged the lorry driver at the scene. None of the injuries sustained are understood to be life threatening.
Dr Mark Folman is a general practitioner with a practice in Newark, however, given the potential seriousness of the incident Dr Folman was asked to attend by Ambulance Control. Although Dr Folman is a registered member of EMICS he also serves on a regular basis with the similar scheme in Cambridgeshire, MAGPAS. (See www.magpas.org.uk for further information.) Emergency vehicles from the local Fire and Rescue service were also in attendance. Dr Folman praised the teamwork of the emergency service personnel which led to a speedy and safe extrication of the injured patients at a very dangerous location.
Another member join the EMICS scheme, March 2010
Dr Bob Winter has joined the team of volunteers that work across the East Midlands and helps to fill a serious gap in its resources in Nottinghamshire. There is only one other EMICS doctor based in Nottinghamshire.
Dr Winter is presently a Consultant in the Intensive Care Unit at Queens Medical Centre in Nottingham. 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 in life he is also a trustee of the Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire Air Ambulance (LNAA) and often serves as duty doctor with the LNAA. Since joining the Scheme at the end of December he has already been attended 5 emergencies in support of East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS)
Fulbeck, Jan 2010
A volunteer emergency doctor from East Midlands Immediate Care Scheme (EMICS) spent much of Saturday morning (30th January 2010) tending to an injured patient at the scene of a road traffic collision on the A17 at Fulbeck Heath, near Grantham, Lincolnshire
Dr Mark Folman, a General Practitioner based in Newark, is a volunteer with EMICS and was called to the incident by the East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) at 08.40 am to attend a two car collision.
He was asked to assist with treatment of one of the drivers, a 19 year old female, who had suffered serious head injuries.
Dr Folman’s specialist training for such trauma enabled him to stabilise the female by anaesthetising her at the scene to help prevent her injury getting worse. The patient was then transferred by road ambulance to Lincoln County Hospital. The driver of the second car received only minor injuries which were treated by paramedics at the scene prior to transfer to Lincoln Hospital.
The incident occurred after a light covering of snow had frozen on the road making driving conditions somewhat hazardous. As a result of the incident the road remained closed for police investigation.
Dr Folman praised the emergency services who were also in attendance for their assistance in helping with the swift and safe extrication of the patient from the vehicle so that he could give the patient the necessary medical care prior to transfer
Emics doctor receives Commendation, Jan 2010
Dr Peter Gordon, who assisted paramedics in their race against time to save a man trapped in his blazing lorry cab in September last year, has received a commendation for bravery.
Dr Gordon was one of the team of 10 which attended the horrific crash on the A14 after a lorry smashed into a heavy goods vehicle, sending it crashing into a van and jack-knifing across the carriageway. The first paramedics on the scene, who this week received bravery awards, ran up and down a queue of traffic asking drivers for fire extinguishers to put out the flames which were engulfing the lorry driver who was screaming in terror.
One of the paramedics honoured, Ian Pratt, based at Corby, said: "In the 19 years I have been in this job I have never seen anything like it. The cab of one lorry was ablaze and so was the back of the other lorry. When I first saw it, I was praying that we would be able to get our guy out. We felt helpless because the patient was trapped and burning and was still conscious. It was a horrible experience but it turned out well. You don't think about the danger, you're just totally focused on the job."
While Kettering paramedics Jackie Luck and Andrea Clarke and other motorists desperately tried to free the driver, Mark Gregory, an operational support manager, ran up and down the carriageway, asking other lorry drivers for their fire extinguishers in a bid to fight the blaze. Firefighters arrived soon after and managed to free the man from his cab where he was treated for moderately severe burns and both a fractured leg and an arm. Dr Gordon said "We were also very concerned about the smoke this man had inhaled and used the Police helicopter to get him rapidly into Intensive Care, where he was ventilated." The driver spent a week under sedation before making a full recovery, along with the driver of the heavy goods vehicle who was run over by his own vehicle and thrown to the side of the road.
East Midlands Ambulance Service presented the group with chief executive's commendations in recognition of how staff risked their own lives to treat the casualties.
The other staff to receive the award were Jackie Luck and Andrea Clarke, paramedics at Kettering station; Mark Gregory, operational support manager; Tim Craddock, a community paramedic at Kettering station; Marilyn Tuckley, an emergency care assistant at Wellingborough station; Alan Burton, a technician at Kettering station; Stuart Smith, an emergency care assistant at Kettering station and Keith Rutherford, a paramedic at Kettering station.
EMICS have also been involved in the following National Major Incidents:
The Kegworth Air crash 1989 Dr Nicholas Foster, Dr Tim Gray
The July 2005 London bombing Dr Peter Holden, Dr Nicholas Foster