British Association for Immediate Care

The British Association for Immediate Care (BASICS) is an organisation which has the stated aim to encourage and aid the formation and extension of immediate care schemes. The organisation relies on volunteer medical professionals to provide healthcare assistance in support of the emergency services.[1][2] It is registered as a charity, with two trading subsidiaries – BASICS Education Ltd and BASICS Trading Ltd – that are both registered as separate limited companies [3]

British Association for Immediate Care
Formation1977
Type
  • Charitable organisation
HeadquartersEaston House, 4 Turret Lane,
Ipswich,
Suffolk,
IP4 1DL
Region
United Kingdom
Chairman
Paul Gates
Vice Chair
Andy Pountney
Websitewww.basics.org.uk

Purpose

BASICS is an association of health care professionals, who undertake additional training as immediate care practitioners. The members provide their services in support of the statutory or voluntary ambulance services.[4]

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BASICS members are used to provide extra skills at the scene of major incidents, or for particularly difficult patients. For this, individuals may be summoned on a case by case basis by the local ambulance control centre.

The Role of Affiliated BASICS Schemes

BASICS schemes across the country assist the ambulance service trusts where a multi-agency response is required at a local level, or additional skills and qualification levels are required. An example of this multi-agency response would be seen at an 'industrial accident' where for example a worker has become trapped in machinery. The ambulance service would work alongside the fire service to co-ordinate the rescue.[5] Individual schemes can supplement the skill set available at scene with a medical doctor, nurse or critical care paramedics, who can provide skills outside the remit of most front-line paramedics. These supplementary skills include different methods of providing analgesia and, if necessary, surgical procedures which might be needed to extricate the patient. BASICS schemes may make use of all grades of first responder including doctors, critical care paramedics, paramedics and nurses alongside community first responders.

Local schemes

BASICS-affiliated schemes across the UK include:[6]

History
The 7/7 London Bombings.

The British Association of Immediate Care Schemes was established in June 1977.[11] Kenneth Easton, a General Practitioner, was the first chairman of the organisation.[12] Initially it was formed from the existing schemes. The organisation then offered individual membership to doctors that had an interest in immediate care, such as those working in General Practice, Surgery, Medicine, Emergency Medicine, Anaesthesia and Critical Care. Associate membership was open to paramedics and nurses which later again changed to offering full membership recognising the changing roles of these professions .[13]:45 [14]

In 1991, the organisation increased their involvement in educational aspects, making available residential courses covering pre-hospital care and resuscitation.[15]:146 Around this time, it became clear that Scotland had different requirements to the rest of the UK, and BASICS Scotland was formed. In 1998, the organisation brought in a scheme for its members to have voluntary accreditation.[16]:287

Further support for the work of BASICS during major incidents came after the 7 July 2005 London bombings. The following year the British Medical Association announced their support for a series of training courses, over three years, to be organised by BASICS.[17]

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References
  1. "Introduction to BASICS". Archived from the original on 21 June 2007. Retrieved 16 June 2007.
  2. "On the Scene". BBC News. 27 December 1999. Retrieved 16 June 2007.
  3. "British Association for Immediate Care Entry". UK Charity Commission. Retrieved 31 December 2018.
  4. "Call for NHS to fund BASICS emergency doctors". BBC News. 22 September 2012. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
  5. "Emergency response and recovery". Cabinet Office. Retrieved 25 May 2014.
  6. "Schemes". British Association for Immediate Care. Retrieved 31 December 2018.
  7. http://www.medservewales.org
  8. http://bearsmedics.org.uk
  9. https://www.basics-devon.org.uk
  10. https://www.nweds.org.uk
  11. "BASICS". The Journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners. 29 (200): 133–135. March 1979.
  12. "Basics" (PDF). British Medical Journal. 2 (6142): 912. 30 September 1978. doi:10.1136/bmj.2.6142.912.
  13. Fisher, Judith M. (January 1990). "The British Association for Immediate Care (BASICS). Its experience in major disasters, with special reference to the role of the medical incident officer". Injury. 21 (1): 45–48. doi:10.1016/0020-1383(90)90153-L. PMID 2347632.
  14. "Join BASICS". BASICS. Archived from the original on 1 January 2019. Retrieved 6 January 2019.
  15. Mackenzie, Roderick (March 2018). "Brief history of Pre-Hospital Emergency Medicine". Emergency Medicine Journal. 35 (3): 146–148. doi:10.1136/emermed-2017-207310. PMID 29463631.
  16. Mackenzie, R; Bevan, D (2005). "For Debate…: A license to practise pre-hospital and retrieval medicine". Emergency Medicine Journal. 22 (4): 286–293. doi:10.1136/emj.2004.020636. PMC 1726725. PMID 15788836.
  17. "Sundial to remember 7 July bombs". BBC News. 25 May 2006. Retrieved 26 September 2007.
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