We're delighted that our Pre-Hospital Emergency Care (PHEC) Course has successfully achieved Faculty of Pre-Hospital Care (FPHC) endorsement for both course content and delivery for a further four years.
A fantastic recognition of the quality, expertise and dedication of our faculty, education leads, office team and learners.
Learn more: https://t.co/JcrL7eqas6
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🚑 Ready to plan your training for 2027?
Our 2027 course programme is now open for booking!
From our advanced Immediate Care Course (ICC) to PHEC (approved by the @SGSA_UK for Crowd Practitioners and endorsed by @RCSEd ), Refresher PHEC, PHEAA Assist, and Paediatric PHEC (pPHEC), we offer training designed to support healthcare professionals at every stage of their pre-hospital care journey.
📍 Courses available in Suffolk, Essex, Hull, Staffordshire, Bristol and Northampton.
Explore the full programme and book your place today: https://t.co/QYrWqtOz5g
We'd love to welcome you on a course in 2027.
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We're delighted by the outstanding feedback received for our Immediate Care Course last week. Comments from delegates included:
👏 "Really excellent course – one of the best I have attended."
👏 "The team of instructors were friendly, approachable, clearly highly experienced and made for a great week."
👏 "Instructors were all approachable and highly knowledgeable and gave measured and fair feedback."
👏 "Excellent course content and faculty."
A huge thank you to our dedicated faculty for delivering such a highly rated learning experience.
We're now looking forward to our upcoming PHEC courses in November and December, which will be delivered by equally experienced and highly regarded teaching teams.
There are still spaces available on our December courses:
📅 7–8 December – Refresher PHEC
📅 9–11 December – PHEC Course
Find out more and book your place: https://t.co/QYrWqtP6UO
The PHEC is only one of two courses approved by the Sports Grounds Safety Authority as meeting its Green Guide recommendations for Crowd Practitioners. The Refresher PHEC is required to maintain the validity of the PHEC certification beyond three years after completing the full PHEC course.
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Our most advanced training programme, the Immediate Care Course (ICC), is underway this week in Essex.
Covering adult and paediatric pre-hospital emergency care, as well as the Pre-Hospital Emergency Anaesthesia (PHEA) Assist role, the ICC is an immersive, highly practical course designed to prepare clinicians for the realities of working in challenging pre-hospital environments.
This week, amongst other things, delegates have been taking part in realistic road traffic collision (RTC) scenarios alongside local fire crews, putting their skills to the test in true-to-life situations. Thank you to Essex County Fire and Rescue Service for taking part in these joint learning exercises.
Take a look at some of the behind-the-scenes photos captured by our volunteer casualties.
📅 Bookings are now open for the May 2027 ICC, along with a range of 2027 dates for:
✅ Pre-Hospital Emergency Care (PHEC) Course
✅ Paediatric PHEC Day
✅ PHEA Assist Day
Find out more and book your place: https://t.co/QYrWqtOz5g
Thank you to our brilliant teaching team Adam Waller, Matthew Ward, Heather Reynolds, Craig Hold and Ben.
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Research, innovation and real-world impact were on full display at The Pre-Hospital Care Conference 2026.
We're pleased to showcase two more posters from this year's poster competition, demonstrating the great work being undertaken across the pre-hospital care community. The poster competition complemented a programme packed with expert plenary sessions, practical demonstrations and interactive workshops, helping to combine educational depth and practical application.
Featured posters:
📌 Wesley Dean – Closing the Loop: A Six-month Interim Review of an ED-to-Prehospital Feedback Pathway for Colleagues' Wellbeing, Closure and Learning
@swasFT@gloshospitals
📌 Lauren Martin – Outcomes of Major Burn Patients attended by @NWAirAmbulance
Congratulations to both presenters and thank you for sharing your valuable insights with delegates.
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We're delighted to showcase two more outstanding posters from The Pre-Hospital Care Conference 2026:
📊 Emily Murden – Hospital turnaround times in a UK HEMS team: Improving mission availability through Service Evaluation
⛰️ Becca Smith – The epidemiology of medical events on Pik Lenin (7,134 metres), Kyrgyzstan: findings from the Slava Topol Project 2026
The standard of posters displayed throughout the conference was excellent. We were particularly pleased to see so many students contributing high-quality research, helping to shape the future of pre-hospital care.
📅 Looking ahead, we're excited to welcome delegates to our 50th Anniversary Conference in York on 7-8 October 2027, where the poster and lightning presentation competitions will return. Keep an eye out in the new year for details of the abstract submission process.
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🎉 Congratulations once again to the winners of our Student and Non-Student Poster Competitions at the Pre-Hospital Care Conference 2026!
We're delighted to showcase these outstanding pieces of research from this year's winners:
🏆 Student Poster Winner
Ana-Sofia Pena Meier:
Cardiac Arrest Dispatch Decisions by Critical Care Paramedics in the @NWAirAmbulance
🏆 Non-Student Poster Winner
Juliet Forsyth & Lewis Miller:
Retrospective Audit of Post-Mortem Findings Following Pre-Hospital Cardiac Arrest Managed by @Magpas_Charity (January 2024-January 2026)
Congratulations to all our winners for their valuable contributions to advancing pre-hospital care. Take a look at their award-winning posters below. 👇
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A huge thank you to the @HelipadHELP for their continued generosity and commitment to supporting BASICS and our schemes across the UK. 💚 This year they have hit the incredible milestone of having donated £2 million.
Funding like this enables volunteer clinicians to respond with the equipment, vehicles and resources needed to provide life-saving pre-hospital care when and where it is needed most. It helps us reach patients faster, deliver critical interventions, and ultimately save lives in our communities. 🚑
We're incredibly grateful to be part of a partnership that continues to strengthen emergency care nationwide. 👏
Read more: https://t.co/jD44CvwhC6
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A huge thank you to the @HelipadHELP for their continued generosity and commitment to supporting BASICS and our schemes across the UK. 💚 This year they have hit the incredible milestone of having donated £2 million.
Funding like this enables volunteer clinicians to respond with the equipment, vehicles and resources needed to provide life-saving pre-hospital care when and where it is needed most. It helps us reach patients faster, deliver critical interventions, and ultimately save lives in our communities. 🚑
We're incredibly grateful to be part of a partnership that continues to strengthen emergency care nationwide. 👏
Read more: https://t.co/jD44CvwhC6
#PreHospitalCare #EmergencyMedicine #BASICS_HQ #SavingLives #Volunteers #BASICSSchemes #CriticalCare
🩸 3/3 | Morning Highlights #BASICS2026
Wg Cdr Rob James (@EmergencyDoc209) on methods of haemorrhage detection.
🔑 Physiology matters! Conventional obs don't tell the full story. Tissue oxygen delivery is key, yet no single tool reliably assesses this in prehospital care.
👏 Thanks to our 3 military speakers @DMS_DefMedAcad, @lauracottey & @EmergencyDoc209 at #BASICS2026!
Blood products evolving, perfusion tricky to measure & exciting analgesia trials ahead!
Great to see research flowing between military & civilian PHEM.
🔄 Shared challenges, better patient care!
We are so grateful to Andy Pountney to all that he has done for BASICS during his time as Chair Person. It was great to honour him at the annual awards dinner at The Pre-Hospital Care Conference 2026 as we also welcomed Paul Gates into the role for the second time. Thank you both! 👏
Congratulations also to our Office Manager Nancy Howlett who was honoured with a 10 year service award. Here's to another 10 at BASICS 😊
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🎓 4/4 | Afternoon Conference Highlights from Day 1 #BASICS2026
Tom Boyd (@LaerdalMedical) explored “From Procedures to Pathways”, drawing on simulation training from military to humanitarian and conflict settings.
💬 A powerful reminder that communication is part of treatment, especially in trauma care.
#MedEd #Simulation
🪨 3/5 | Afternoon Conference Highlights from Day 1 #BASICS2026
Dr Leo Wood explored the FPHC Crush Injury consensus, highlighting limited evidence and key updates:
🔑 Individualised fluids, blood for haemorrhage, tourniquets for catastrophic bleeding & no routine prophylactic hyperkalaemia treatment.
📖 https://t.co/DBQjbtnArp
🚗 The EXIT Project: evidence-based extrication in action! Conference delegates getting hands-on and practising extrication, guided by members of the BASICS education team. Bringing evidence into practice together. #BASICS2026#Extrication#PHEC
🚗 From theory to practice: Paul Hamer from @_UKRO and @shropsfire demonstrating vehicle extrication at today’s BASICS Pre-Hospital Care Conference. A great opportunity to see the skills and teamwork behind the rescue. #BASICS2026#Extrication#PHEC
🚑 The Pre-Hospital Care Conference 2026 is just one week away!
Please note that tickets for the Awards Dinner have now closed, but there is still time to secure your place at the conference.
Our next speaker reveal is Leo Wood, who will be presenting:
🩺 "Early Management of Crush Injury – The New FPHC Consensus"
The Faculty of Pre-Hospital Care recently published updated consensus guidance on the early management of patients with crush injuries. In this session, Leo will explore the key evidence-based recommendations and best practice updates that every pre-hospital clinician should know.
Dr Leo Wood is an Emergency Medicine Trainee based in Bristol with a keen interest in Global Emergency Care and Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine. Outside of work, you'll usually find him running in the hills.
🎟️ Book your conference ticket here: https://t.co/sSQxM4BZl2
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