Donation of £500 to East Midland Immediate Care Scheme (EMICS)

In 1984 Dr Tim Gray and several GP colleagues in the area had joined together to form the Rutland Accident Care Scheme (RACS). This charity provided doctors to work alongside the Ambulance Service treating seriously ill and injured patients both at the scene and en-route to hospital.  From these early beginnings the EMICS network of volunteer doctors with specialist training in pre-hospital emergency medicine who assist East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS) at the scene of life threatening emergencies. EMICS doctors provide advanced specialist skills at the point of accident or injury, where they are needed most. 

The volunteer doctors 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.

The doctors 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.

EMICS has recently purchased a Fast Response Vehicle  which has been funded by  donations from the Leicestershire and Rutland Freemasons Charity(LRFC) together with support from neighbouring Counties.  The Old Oakhamian Lodge wished to support the work of EMICS and has donated £500 to the LRFC towards this.

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