The North Hampshire BASICS 0200 Team provides pre-hospital critical
care in the North Hampshire Area. The Team is based at The North
Hampshire Hospital in Basingstoke. All members are full BASICS
members who share a response vehicle (callsign '0200', hence the
Team's name) and work according to common procedures, alongside
other BASICS responders in the area.
The Team began in 2004 and since then we have attended the following
tyes of incident:
1. Motor crashes with trapped casualties - this is the commonest case requiring
our help
2. Acutely confused patients requiring sedation |
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3. Injured elderly and paediatric patients who are
in too much pain to be moved
4. Major incidents - we ran the Casualty Clearing Station
at the Ufton Nervet Rail Disaster in November 2004, and were asked
to ready
a team for deployment at the London Bombings in July 2005
5. Police
Armed Response incidents - we attended a hostage siege in Basingstoke.
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The advantages of working as a team include the opportunity
to train with each other and with the local ambulance and fire
service crews, and some of the pictures on this site are of training
nights using simulated casualties.
Our training is organised by Hampshire BASICS' only consultant nurse, Mr Bruce
Armstrong, whose pre-hospital expertise is a great resource for the doctors in
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The challenge for the coming year for the North Hampshire BASICS
0200 Team is to increase our availability. As a volunteer service,
all members
have full time jobs and so we would like to train and equip more
members of the Team so that ultimately all calls for help are answered.
We
are actively involved in fundraising to help us work towards this.
For further information contact the Officer in Charge of the 0200
Team, Dr Cliff Reid, or for assistance with fundraising call Sindy
Coppin
on 01256 397361
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