Doctors and the support staff of the EMICS scheme

Dr Mark Folman, Chairman of the East Midlands Immediate Care Scheme, is a General Practitioner working in Newark. Since 2005 he has been working as part of the Magpas Emergency Medical Team, extending his skills in prehospital critical care.

He continues to volunteer for regular shifts on the Cambridgeshire team and has been involved in training new team members. He has been responding for EMICS since January 2008 assisting ambulance crews across Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire.

 

 

 

 

Mr Garth Lee has been the honorary Press Officer for EMICS from February 2008, he is a retired Marketing Consultant and Chartered Engineer. After 25 years in marketing with a precision engineering and optics company he started consultancy with small to medium sized enterprises on a range of marketing activities. He was also, for 10 years part time director of science, technology and maths activities with the Leicestershire Education Business Partnership (latterly Company) building links between schools and colleges and businesses across the region.

He is a member of the Moderation Group for CREST Awards for the British Association for the Advancement of Science.

He enjoys hill walking and watching the Leicester Tigers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Andy Lee currently is the Secretary of the East Midlands Regional Faculty of Pre Hospital Care. He is a full-time Fire Officer with Derbyshire Fire and Rescue Service for seven years. During 2006 and 2007 he worked as Technical Rescue Instructor teaching many disciplines and is now based at Service Headquarters. During 2008 he joined the assessor team for the United Kingdom Rescue Organisation (UKRO).

Andy is an experienced BASICS instructor who both instructs and course directs many pre-hospital care courses. In 2007 he devised the BASICS SMART@Scene course and is a member of the BASICS Education Committee. During 2008 he received a national BASICS award for his work to BASICS and dedication to pre hospital care.

He is an experienced instructor in many aspects of technical rescue and is also a member of Edale Mountain Rescue Team. Having attended several international aid trips his medical support is now much closer to home though he is a medical team member and technical officer to the Northern Ireland Motorbike racing scene.

 

 

 

 

Dr Pam Hardy has been a member of EMICS since its inception and a member of BASICS (British Association for Immediate Care) since 1997.

She is president of the East Midlands Faculty of Pre-Hospital Care, Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh. She works as a Consultant in Emergency Care at Chesterfield Royal Hospital and responds for EMICS in the Derbyshire Peak District. She also works as a HEMS doctor with Derbyshire, Leicestershire Rutland Air Ambulance.

Pam was a founder member of the Faculty of Pre-hospital Care of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and gained the Fellowship in Immediate Medical Care in 2001. She is now a member of the faculty of examiners for the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and represents the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health on the Intercollegiate Board for Training in Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine.

In 2005 she founded the East Midlands Regional Faculty of Pre-hospital Care, which she has chaired since, running a regular educational programme for all those with an interest in pre-hospital care.

In 2007 she contributed in the role of Medical Director to the BASICS Smart@Scene Course written by Andy Lee and later received a national BASICS award for her contribution and dedication to pre hospital care.

 

Dr Andy Davies is a General Practitioner working in Ilkeston including the Ilkeston Minor Injuries Unit. He has been involved in Pre-hospital care since 1998. He is paged by EMAS to cover urban, rural, motorway and airport incidents around the are of Ilkeston, Long Eaton and the M1 at junction 24 to 28.

 

He is an instructor for the parent organisation BASICS (British Association of Immediate Care Schemes) since 1999.

 

 

 

 

Dr Nick Foster FRCGP, has been involved in Immediate Care since 1987. He is a GP in Kegworth at Junction 24 of the M1 motoroway. He was awarded the Queens Jubilee Gold medal in 2005 and the British Association of Immediate Care award in 2004 for his contributions to Pre-Hospital Care.

Before General Practice, he was an anaesthetist and subsequently a surgeon at the Glasgow Southern General Neurosurgical unit involved in head and neck trauma. He was on the helicopter retrieval team for major trauma in the Scottish Highlands.

In 1989, he was involved in the Kegworth Air crash major incident rescue that claimed 37 lives with 87 survivors.

In 2006, he received the East Midlands Ambulance Service CEO commendation following the rescue of a severely injured workman from a 60 foot works pit.

He responds for the East Midlands Ambulance Service across southern Derbyshire/Nottinghamshire and northern Leicestershire.

 

Dr Peter Gordon MRCGP is a retired General Practitioner living in Northamptonshire. He retired from Redwell Medical Centre, in wellingborough after more than 30 years in practice. He was the co-founder of the Northamptonshire GP Accident Scheme in 1976 with the now retired Dr Alan Sutton of Roade.

The Scheme was formed at the request of Northamptonshire Ambulance Service controllers and staff and gained charitable status in 1978. The original equipment for the Scheme was purchased from funds raised by the general public, voluntary organisations, Wellingborough police officers and The Evening Telegraph 1980 Christmas Appeal.

The Northants Scheme was merged with EMICS in 2008 when the Ambulance Services were merged to form East Midlands Ambulance Service with a regional control room in Nottingham.

In 2009, he was awarded a commendation for bravery rescuing a man from a burning lorry following an incident on the A14.

He has been the Forensic Physician and Medical Advisor for Northants Police Force for 11 years. His role as Force Medical Advisor enables liaison between police and ambulance service personnel in certain circumstances such as road traffic collisions which might involve abuse of alcohol or drugs.

 

Dr Tim Gray MBE,is the retired Chairman and founder of the Rutland Accident Care Scheme (RACS 1980) and the East Midlands Immediate Care Scheme (EMICS 2002)He is a GP in Oakham, Rutland and has been responding to calls from the East Midlands Ambulance Service since 1984.

In 2004 he was awarded the MBE for services to immediate care.

 

 

 

 

 

Dr Peter Holden FIMCRCSEd MRCGP is a GP in Matlock and been involved in Immediate Care in all its facets for 25 years.He attained the Diploma in Immediate Medical Care of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 1991, then becoming one of the first to attain Fellowship in Immediate Care of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh in 2001.

He has written extensively on the subject being invited to contribute chapters to the standard works on Immediate Care and was one of the authors of the original PreHospital Care Course.

In 2008 he was invited to become an examiner for the Diploma in Immediate Care. A member of EMICS since its inception he responds regularly within the East Midlands.

He is also physician aircrew on the Lincolnshire & Nottinghamshire Air Ambulance – one of the two air ambulance helicopters operating in the EMICS area as well as being physician aircrew on the East Anglian Air Ambulance and the Vice Chairman designate of BASICS - the national organisation.

He is also the BMA lead on Emergency Preparedness.

 

 

 

 

Dr Stuart Maitland-Knibb is a GP in the Royal Airforce based in Lincolnshire

He flies with the Warwickshire and Coventry Air Ambulance as well as responding for EMICS outside operational hours.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dr Simeon Rayner is a full time GP in Billesdon. Previously qualified as surgeon with interest in trauma. Responds to incidents in area around place of work, home area round Ashby de la Zouch and all area in between. He passed his Diploma in Immediate Care (Edinburgh) in May 2009

When not at work enjoys horse riding, badminton , keep fit and watching "Tigers."

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Major Leon Roberts MBE, is a Military Medical Officer in the Royal Army Medical Corps working as a GP in army barracks in Rutland, Leicestershire and Lincolnshire.

In 2004, whilst working in Catterick, he started responding to calls for assistance from the Yorkshire Ambulance Service in the Yorkshire Dales.

He has been responding for EMICS since the later part of 2007 assisting ambulance crews across Rutland, Leicestershire and Rutland. He gained his diploma in Immediate Care (Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh) in September 2008.

He was awarded an MBE in the military division of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 2010

 

 

 

 

 

Dr Neil Thomson is an Anaesthetist working in Coventry.

Dr Neil Thomson has been involved in prehospital medicine for all his working life. He is an Assistant Medical Director for the London Ambulance Service and works as a flight doctor with the Warwickshire and Northamptonshire Air Ambulance. As well as responding to incidents for both EMICS and South Central Ambulance Service, he regularly teaches with South Central Ambulance Service and Buckinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service and has recently been involved with the reconfiguration of major trauma services in the South Central region.

 

 

 

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)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dr Matthew Woods is an anaesthetic registrar from Leicester who works full time at the Leicester Royal Infirmary