Whether its a small festival or a festival for 150,000 revellers, we are able to provide professional first aid and medical teams including ambulances, medical centres and even X-Ray and other imaging to further reduce unreqired transfer of patients from the event to the local hospital.
We work together with other providers to ensure your event has the most appropriate medical cover, whilst ensuring an efficient and protocol led management structure.
What does the HSE say?
Event safety comes under the remit of the Health & Safety Executive… they outline the following:
(as the event organizer…)
First Aid / Medical Cover For Events
We know.. its an absolute mind field!
The HSE states:
“As well as workers (at the event), the HSE strongly recommends that you include the visiting public in your first aid, medical and ambulance needs assessment. You should balance onsite medical and ambulance provision against existing local NHS and ambulance service provision and capacity.
Except for small, low-risk events where ambulances may not be required, and at events where they are not onsite, plans should be drawn up in conjunction with the local NHS ambulance service to clarify how patients will be taken to hospital.”
There is however, some good news. Jigsaw Medical Services Ltd will not only provide the first aid / medical cover itself, we will also help you with major incident plans, assessing the risk and requirements for the event and liaising with the local NHS ambulance service and hospitals!
The HSE have published an event safety guide (Known in the trade as ‘The Purple Guide!’) this guide acts (amongst other things) as a medical cover calculator, and determines how many first aiders, ambulances, paramedics, doctors and nurses that your event will require. Here at Jigsaw, we will meet with you and the other relevant officials (if the event is large) and discuss, calculate and agree on theses requirements.
We are not new at events, medical management and major incident management, so contact us today to discuss your requirements!
Fabrice Muamba’s heart failed for two hours as paramedics fought to save his life…
Muamba had to be shocked with a defibrillator 15 times by paramedics before his heart started beating on its own after over 80 minuets of him being clinically dead!!
Does your business have a lifesaving AED? Without this device the outcome would have been very different for Fabrice Muamba!
Buy an AED today from Jigsaw Medical Services and we will train you how to use it properly!
NHS 111 is a new service that’s being introduced to make it easier for you to access local NHS healthcare services. If you live in County Durham and Darlington, Lancashire (excluding West Lancashire), Lincolnshire, the London boroughs of Croydon and Hillingdon, Luton, North Derbyshire and Nottingham City, or on the Isle of Wight, you can now call 111 when you need medical help fast but it’s not a 999 emergency.
NHS 111 is a fast and easy way to get the right help, whatever the time.
NHS 111 is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Calls are free from landlines and mobile phones.
You should use the NHS 111 service if you urgently need medical help or advice but it’s not a life-threatening situation.
Call 111 if:
For less urgent health needs, contact your GP or local pharmacist in the usual way.
For immediate, life-threatening emergencies, continue to call 999.
The NHS 111 service is staffed by a team of fully trained advisers, supported by experienced nurses. They will ask you questions to assess your symptoms, then give you the healthcare advice you need or direct you straightaway to the local service that can help you best. That could be A&E, an out-of-hours doctor, a walk-in centre or urgent care centre, a community nurse, an emergency dentist or a late-opening chemist.
Where possible, the NHS 111 team will book you an appointment or transfer you directly to the people you need to speak to. If you need an ambulance, one will be sent just as quickly as if you had dialled 999.
If a health professional has given you a specific phone number to call when you are concerned about your condition, continue to use that number.
If you have difficulties communicating or hearing, you can use the NHS 111 service through a textphone by calling 18001 111.
Calls are connected to the TextDirect system and the textphone will display messages to tell you what is happening. A Typetalk Relay Assistant will automatically join the call. They will talk back what you’ve typed to the NHS 111 adviser and, in return, type back the adviser’s conversation, so you can read it on your textphone’s display or computer.
Jigsaw Medical Services can provide unit medics including; EMT’s, Nurses, Paramedics & Doctors to the film/tv and media industries. Our staff will always be equipped to deal quickly and effectively with both serious accidents, and minor injuries, illnesses and ailments on set or location. Our experience means we are used to working in the most challanging of environments and many of our staff have worked on long term attachments with film/tv units in remote and hostile environments.
Our staff have worked on a number of TV Series and Films including: Hollyoaks & Famous & Fearless!
Automatic External Defibrillators (AED’s) are becoming more common throughout workplaces. In an emergency, a first aider can supply basic life support to a casualty but with the addition of the correct use of an AED, the chances of survival for the casualty are significantly increased.
It was recently seen on TV and in the news about Fabrice Muamba and hes on-pitch cardiac arrest. Had the medical staff not been there with a lifesaving defibrillator, many think the outcome would have been negative.
Buy a defib for your workplace from Jigsaw Medical Services today and we will train your staff to use it!!!
We have decided here at Jigsaw, to create this blog to keep you updated with all our latest news, from both ourselves, The Jigsaw Group and the medical / first aid world in general!
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