EMICS is a network of volunteer doctors and paramedics with specialist training in pre-hospital emergency medicine who assist East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) at the scene of life threatening emergencies. EMICS doctors and paramedics provide advanced specialist skills at the point of accident or injury, where they are needed most.
“Thank you for saving my little girl. Six years on and we will never forget the quick response of Dr Matt Woods, we owe you everything!”
Our volunteer clinicians turn out at all hours, in all weather conditions, 365 days a year. This is all done on a voluntary basis, responding from home in their own vehicles, around normal work commitments.
Clinicians are dispatched alongside usual NHS resources to the most serious incidents in the region and arrive at scene carrying all their own kit and medications, funded entirely by the charity.
We are an independent not-for-profit, registered charity supporting a team of specialist doctors and paramedics based across the East Midlands region.
The support we offer East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) is provided free of charge to the NHS. This is only achievable through our network of dedicated and passionate doctors and paramedics, who all give their time voluntarily and the generosity of donors across the East Midlands. We receive no government, public sectors or NHS funding so we are 100% reliant on charitable donations, legacies, grants, third-party fundraising and sponsorship.
Our doctors and paramedics undergo a rigorous selection process, and they must be prepared to commit to volunteering for at least 3 years. They all have more than 5 years post qualification experience and we put them through an intensive in-house competency-based training programme. We mentor and monitor them along the way and record all their activities and compliance records on our internally developed and secure IT systems.
We employ a suitably qualified operations manager to ensure that all our compliance standards are kept up to date, we procure assets, drugs and consumables to proper value for money principles and all our equipment is kept operational and fully serviced. This operations manager is a fully qualified paramedic and volunteers to treat patients in his own time.
We have many volunteers who support our fundraising efforts and manage the charity at a strategic level.
Our network of volunteer doctors and paramedics covers the entire East Midlands region – Rutland, North Northamptonshire and Lincolnshire.
Covering such a vast area, our volunteer doctors are called out to a wide range of incidents, in varied terrains from city centres to the more remote areas of the Derbyshire Dales and everywhere in between.
Registered office: 51 West Road, Oakham, Rutland LE15 6LT
Charity Number: 1188852
