First Aid and Ambulance Services

First Aid and Ambulance Services

We provide event organisers – and the public at large – with the confidence that injury or illness among those attending will be dealt with promptly and effectively. We want people to enjoy their leisure activities safely, so we plan accordingly.
We can help to provide a risk assessment and response plan to help meet the requirements of the licencing authority.
Our event personnel are all volunteers. We work for love rather than money, so our motivation is different. It also means that our costs are highly competitive.

Our members’ skills are matched to the needs of the event. All are qualified to at least First Aid at Work. Most have additional skills in oxygen therapy, pain relief, spinal immobilisation and a range of clinical observations. We try to stabilise all patients so that if hospital attention is required they can get there in their own time and in their own way. It’s what most patients prefer and it’s a win for everyone.
We can also transfer patients to the NHS ambulance service if that’s the most appropriate thing to do. Occasionally we will take patients in our own ambulance if we can do that without depleting the remaining resources at the event.

In turn, our ambulance was purpose-designed and built for us. It gives us maximum flexibility as a treatment centre, control point or means of transport. It’s 4x4 so it copes well with off-road conditions.

The events themselves vary hugely and we are happy to respond to new enquiries. Based in Fife, we have attended events from Aberdeenshire to the Borders and as far West as Mull. A low-risk event might involve a seated audience of perhaps a few hundred people. Higher risks involve alcohol, more than 1,000 people, endurance challenges, motorsport, horses or livestock.

Our only constraint is that as volunteers, many of our personnel also have full-time jobs, so forward planning is essential. At any given moment we have events in our diary for up to 10 months ahead.

Naturally, we’re always keen to extend our experience of different events and new clients. If you have an event in mind – or are finding it difficult to find resources elsewhere - we will do our best to respond.

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Reviews

I’m in awe at how you all handled such a situation. Very thankful to you and your team.
Words cannot property express my gratitude to you all for your life saving assistance.
The way you were able to take charge of the situation in such a caring and considerate way helped to make an awful situation a bit easier and was much appreciated.
You’ll never know how incredibly grateful we are to have had the piece of mind that we had this defibrillator until the ambulance arrived.
I’m in awe at how you all handled such a situation. Very thankful to you and your team.
Words cannot property express my gratitude to you all for your life saving assistance.
The way you were able to take charge of the situation in such a caring and considerate way helped to make an awful situation a bit easier and was much appreciated.
You’ll never know how incredibly grateful we are to have had the piece of mind that we had this defibrillator until the ambulance arrived.