Our Courses

Since 1993 BASICS Scotland has provided a wide variety of courses aimed at the pre-hospital emergency care provider/responder in Scotland.

Our courses are of the highest quality; evidence based and are taught by multi disciplinary experts.

A full list of courses can be viewed on the Upcoming courses page.

What courses do we offer?

We offer a range of face-to-face courses including:

As well as face-to-face courses, we have recently launched a range of online courses including:

Who can attend?

Courses are open to doctors, registered paramedics, nurses and Resuscitation Training Officers. Unfortunately we cannot offer places to Community First Responders, Ambulance Technicians or First Aiders as they would not be registered to put the skills learned on the course into practice.

To find out more about our courses, browse the course links above or navigate to them using the Course menu drop downs.

If you would like to book a place on a course, please submit a course enquiry form. If you require further information on course bookings please view our Booking Information page.

Please read the terms of our cancellation policy which is applicable to all course bookings.

Feedback

We ask participants to complete hard copy feedback for BASICS Scotland on our courses.

The Sandpiper Trust
The Sandpiper Trust, a Scottish Charity, was set up in memory of Sandy Dickson by his parents, family and friends. The primary aim of the Trust is to ensure that all Rural GPs in Scotland are provided with essential emergency medical equipment and resources once they have undergone specialist training courses and gained certification from BASICS Scotland. For further information on the work of the Sandpiper Trust, please go to www.sandpipertrust.org.

To download a Sandpiper Bag Application Form, please click here.

To download the contents layout for your Sandpiper Bag, please click here.

Scottish Infection Prevention and Control Education Pathway (SIPCEP)
A clear staged pathway of contemporary HAI education to enable staff and students to continuously improve their knowledge and skills around Infection Prevention and Control (IPC).
This pathway will provide flexible access to learning for staff as appropriate to their role and adopts a modular structure. The content is contemporary and suitable for wide multi-professional clinical and non-clinical audiences, in all health and social care settings. The pathway will comprise three layers – Foundation, Intermediate and Improvement.
Find out more on the NES website.

BASICS Scotland

2 days ago

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BASICS Scotland

3 days ago

We still have 1 place left on the Maternity and Neonatal Emergencies skills day on the 4th May in Mull. If you are interested in taking part, get in touch today at courses@basics-scotland.org.uk! ... See MoreSee Less

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BASICS Scotland

4 days ago

The BASICS Scotland Annual Conference & AGM will be taking place on the 7-8th September 2018 at the Macdonald Aviemore Resort. The website is live and we are ready to take delegate bookings. You can go to basics-scotland.org.uk/conference/ and book today.

In the lead up to the event we would like to introduce the Speakers and Sponsors that will be in attendance starting with Duncan Scott who will be our Friday night speaker.

Duncan Scott is an acute physician in NHS Highland working mainly in Raigmore hospital Inverness in medical high dependency, ambulatory care and the acute medical unit. He also works in Caithness general hospital in Wick providing general and acute medical service there. He trained in the north of Scotland and Tasmania Australia, with an interest in rural health care. He also has a strong interest in medical education and is currently the deputy director of medical education for NHS Highland. He is vice chair of the society of acute medicine, Scotland and lead for acute medicine in Raigmore. His wife is a local GP in Aviemore. When not at work he enjoys time in the outdoor often in the Spey Valley with our three children and dog. For the last eleven years he has volunteered with the Cairngorm mountain rescue team, and more recently as a BASICS Responder and part of the PICT team in Inverness.

Duncan’s talk will draw together experience from looking after acutely unwell patients across the highlands both in hospital and in some interesting out of hospital environments too. He will also discuss how innovation in the department of medical education might support rural health care in both primary and secondary care. ... See MoreSee Less

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