‘Home and away’: International pre-hospital care conference

The ‘Home and away’ International pre-hospital care conference, joint–hosted by the British Association for Immediate Care (BASICS) and the Faculty of Pre-hospital care of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, took place on the 12–13 October 2012 at the Holiday Inn, Walsall.

Attendees varied from doctors, nurses, paramedics and academics, all of whom shared the common purpose of improving and defining pre-hospital care within the UK, and exploring those lessons learned from events and situations which have tested emergency care across the globe over the past 12 months.

A range of talks and lectures on such topics as Treatment for Afghan civilians by Mr Jeff Evans, The Polar Bear Incident by Dr Chris Press and Time to bypass the resus room? by Mr Tom Konig were delivered over the two day conference, demonstrating the vast spectrum of global pre-hospital care and the myriad of challenges facing practitioners in the field from both a microcosmic and microcosmic perspective