MB BS FRCS(Ed) FRCS(Eng) FIMC RCS(Ed) Professor of Clinical Traumatology (Birmingham), Consultant Trauma Surgeon and Immediate Care Practitioner. Qualifying originally in London and undertaking higher surgical training in the West Midlands he was originally appointed Consultant Trauma Surgeon at the Birmingham Accident Hospital in 1986. With changes in hospitals he is now Senior Trauma Surgeon at University Hospital Birmingham. He is also an active immediate care practitioner working in urban practice in Birmingham and in a rural environment in the Hereford and Worcester. He is the Medical Director of the West Midlands Central Accident Resuscitation Emergency (CARE) team and actively involved in both the delivery of training and education. He is a Vice Chairman of BASICS and the regional representative of both BASICS and the Faculty of Pre-hospital Care(FPHC). Within the Edinburgh College he is a member of its education and quality assurance committees, as well as the FPHC representative on College Council. He has published numerous books on pre-hospital care and trauma. He is the Chairman of the Trauma Care Council, a member of the Defence Scientific Advisory Committee and a member of the Resuscitation Council.

After completing his general practice training John Scott worked in a Cambridge practice for some 21 years before joining the East Anglian Ambulance Trust and then when the three local ambulance trusts merged becoming medical director with the East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust.

He has always had an interest in emergency care joining Magpas (the Cambridgeshire Immediate Care Scheme) in 1977 sitting the first diet of the Diploma in Immediate Medical Care in 1988. Following that along with colleagues from Magpas and BASICS he created BASICS Education and with the Faculty and Royal College developed a number of courses such as PHEC (Pre-hospital emergence Care) and ACE (Acute Care Edinburgh).

He has become an examiner in both the Diploma and Fellowship and most recently invited to the role of Vice Chairman of the Faculty. He continues to remain clinically active with a particular interest in education and the development of career pathways for all those providing responses in conjunction to the statutory ambulance services

Consultant in Emergency Medicine at the University Hospital of South Manchester NHS Foundation Trust, Associate Medical Director of the North West Ambulance Service, active pre-hospital practitioner as part of SMART (South Manchester Accident Rescue Team). Professional interests are based upon the academic development of pre-hospital emergency care and emergency planning. Involved with the Department of Health Emergency Planning Division in the UK and in a number of international groups working on Emergency Medical Services standards globally

Mb,ChB,DRCOG, FIMC RCS (Ed) Director of Education BASICS Scotland Dr Colville Laird has been a General Practitioner in Auchterarder for the past 20 years during which time he has been actively involved in Immediate Care. In 1993 he started running Immediate Care Courses for Health Professionals in Scotland and is now Director of BASICS Education Scotland. At the present time BASICS Education Scotland provides approximately 350 Course places per year on a mixture of Courses on subjects involving Immediate Care and Pre-hospital Emergency Care. Dr Laird holds the Fellowship in Immediate Care from The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, is an Examiner in Immediate Medical Care for them and is a Member of the Education and Assessment Sub-Committee of the Faculty of Pre-hospital Care for The Royal College. Dr Laird is the Associate Editor of the Emergency Medicine Journal and has the responsibility for the Pre-hospital Care Section.

FFAEM., FIMC, RCS.Ed. My career which started in general practice in 1972, developed into Aeromedical Evacuation and Accident and Emergency Medicine. I spent 20 years flying casualties all over the world in both fixed wing and rotary wing aircraft. More recently, I have been a Consultant in Accident and Emergency medicine in Lancashire Teaching Hospitals. For the last 7 years I have been the Medical Director of Lancashire Ambulance Service. I have been an examiner for the Diploma and Immediate Medical Care for 8 years and serve on the Education Committee and the Board of Education for Assessments Standards and Training (BEAST) of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, and am the Convenor of the Diploma in the Immediate and Medical Care examination. Previous appointments Late Chairman BASICS Late President International Society of Aeromedical Services. Current appointments Medical Director Ambulance Service Honorary Senior Lecturer Medical Informatics, University of Central Lancashire, Trustee Medalert (Lancashire BASICS Scheme) County Medical Officer St John Lancashire Reviewer for the Healthcare Commission.

MB ChB, MRCP(UK), Dip IMC RCS Ed, FIMC RCSEd), Consultant in Accident and Emergency. Qualified at University of Birmingham Medical School in 1986. Trained in General Medicine and Emergency Medicine. Joined the British Army and appointed Consultant in 1997. Appointed a Visiting Professor in Emergency Medicine at the University of Teesside in 2002. Author or Editor of 10 books and numerous chapters and papers on Emergency Medicine, Trauma and Pre-hospital care. Member of the Speciality Advisory Board and Member of the Management Board of the Faculty of Pre-hospital Care. Major research interests: Trauma of Pre-hospital Care and Emergency Medicine.