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The Sandpiper Trust aims to provide Scotland’s doctors and nurses, who have been highly trained in accident and emergency skills by BASICS ( The British Association of Immediate Care, Scotland), with appropriate emergency medical equipment known as the Sandpiper Bag. Read More.
These kits cost over £1000 each and include more than 50 essential general medical and paediatric items. The Sandpiper Bag enables lifesaving “pre-hospital” procedures to be carried out during that critical period known as the “Golden Hour” when in the more remote and rural parts of Scotland an ambulance may be several hours away. The Sandpiper Bags with their uniform layout and colour coded contents have now become recognised as an international standard of immediate care.

• 45 more Sandpiper bags presented to medical practitioners.
• 25 more vehicle locators.
• 100 Medax pulse oximeters
• 100 Intaosseous drills complete with 2needles
• 200 Sam splints
• Hal’s new arm ( the high tech mannequin) enabling training to be more sophisticated.
• Basics Scotland have developed a form which bag holders will fill in when they use the equipment,
• This will be a valuable resource of information.