South East Coast Immediate Medical Care Scheme

24/12/2022

Are you considering a “Gift of Giving” this Christmas and New Year?
SIMCAS is a growing team of dedicated and highly experienced medical professionals who deliver Immediate Medical Care.
We are hoping to further develop our services in 2023 and need your support.
SIMCAS are 100% volunteers, you donation helps fund vital training and medical equipment enabling us to deliver the care that is needed.

South East Coast Immediate Medical Care Scheme (SIMCAS)SIMCAS is the BASICS charity for the South East. SIMCAS is entirely a charity and we rely on the generosity of the public to keep us alive so we can continue to provide an exceptional level of pre-hospital medical care, and be there when you nee...

08/09/2022

South East Immediate Medical Care Scheme (SIMCAS) sends its deepest condolences to the Royal Family on the news of the death of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. She has been a beacon of stability, respect and service to the United Kingdom, the Commonwealth and the whole world for her reign of 70 years. These values will continue to guide and support us in our service of the community. God Save the King.

Dr R L Cottingham - Chairman

31/12/2021

A New Years Message from our Chairman:

"I’d like to reflect on this year by thanking the amazing team that SIMCAS has become. From a tiny dormant group at the beginning of 2021, SIMCAS received a terrific boost with kick-starter support from Platinum Ambulance Service, so recruitment and training could begin in earnest.
We now have a proper corporate structure and members working hard on all aspects required for a modern, properly governed service. We are now a team of 11 doctors, 5 nurses, an ODP and 14 paramedics. We cover the entire gamut of prehospital care, from people bringing years of front line experience and expertise to enthusiastic clinicians keen to add prehospital care to their portfolio.
It feels an impossible task to pick out particular supporters as everyone has done so much, but particular thanks must go to Tim Mordaunt for providing our superb fully equipped response car and hosting training days, Kevin Fuller for organising training and PPE options so well, Adam Waller, Dom Ward, Patrick Hayes, Chris Martin and Jamie Monks for their work on our Clinical Standard Operating Procedures – Jamie also for our superb website. Abi Monck is really leading from the front on fundraising so please consider helping her raise money for the charity through her JustGiving page (https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/abigail-monck-elements) (https://justgiving.com/campaign/simcas). Jed Herman has organised clothing and kept our operations map up to date and everyone has got involved in teaching and contributed to our internal discussion groups. Thank you all for your input – you are making SIMCAS what it is and will be. I am looking forward to 2022 as the year we will really get going, and we are building on the solid support the entire team has given. We are all glad to see the back of 2021 for so many reasons and I am sure you will join me in wishing our wonderful team a very happy New Year and a 2022 that will be so much better."

I hope you all stay safe and well and a very Happy New Year!

Dr Rowley Cottingham MB BS BSc FRCS(Ed) FRCEM MEWI

24/12/2021

The true blessing of Christmas lies not in gifts but in the family that sits beside you. May this holiday bring peace and prosperity to you all. From all of us at SIMCAS, we hope you remain safe and well this holiday and enjoy a very happy Christmas

10/12/2021

schemes like ourselves do not receive any funding? We're a charity that relies on the generosity of the great British public like you to keep us on the road. Without you, we would cease to exist. Donate today! 💙 -->

Donations As a BASICS charity scheme, we do not receive any government funding, and as such, we rely solely on the generosity of your donations to keep us alive and delivering high-quality medical care to our patients. Without you, SIMCAS, and all other BASICS schemes, would cease to exist.  To mak...

14/11/2021

"We will remember them"

05/10/2021

Another huge milestone for South East Coast Immediate Medical Care Scheme!

Almost half of our entire responding membership came together on Saturday 2nd October at Platinum Ambulance Service's base for our first training day of the new era. We had updates on equipment from Kevin and Tim, stepwise airway management with Adam, modern management of traumatic cardiac arrest using the HOTT trauma algorithm from Gerry, and a brilliant sociable lunch provided by Tim. We also reviewed the options for uniform and Personal Protective Equipment with some excellent samples.

Outdoor training had to be held as the weather was beyond atrocious but it will feature shortly so we can drill Road Traffic Collisions, Major Trauma and other incidents in austere, pre-hospital environments.

A big thank you to Adam, Gerry, and Kevin for such a great start and a special thank you to Tim and Platinum Ambulance Service for hosting us. We'll be doing it again very soon. The future is looking very bright for SIMCAS and its members!