Scotland-based · Event Medical & First Aid

Expert medical cover for events of every size

From gala days to airshows, music festivals to nightclubs — E.R Medical provides professional, fully-insured event medical services and first aid training across Scotland. Whatever your event, you're in safe hands.

Fully insured
HCPC · NMC · GMC registered clinicians
FREC 3 & 4 responders
Registered in Scotland · SC776235
2021Established
9+Clinical roles on call
24/7Dedicated event manager
100sEvents covered
About us

Safe hands at every event

With years of combined experience and strong relationships across a wide range of medical professionals, E.R Medical delivers comprehensive, reassuring event medical cover. Founded in 2021, we've directed medical operations at some of Scotland's biggest events — including Pride Glasgow and Hampden Park.

Every event is unique, so our cover is tailored to your needs. From the moment you book, a dedicated event manager is available 24/7 right up to the event date — planning, risk-assessing and crewing the right team for you.

  • Tailored to your event — risk-assessed cover scaled to your crowd, activity and location.
  • Registered professionals — HCPC paramedics, NMC nurses, GMC doctors and FREC responders.
  • Fully insured — medical malpractice, professional indemnity, public & employer liability.
Live control room

Every event, professionally coordinated

Our medical controllers run each event from a real-time dispatch platform — logging calls, tasking the nearest unit and tracking patient care from first contact to handover. The same technology that powers this site.

  • 📟 Live call logging & triage
  • 🚑 Real-time unit tasking & tracking
  • 📋 Electronic patient report forms
  • 📊 Situation reports for command briefings
What we cover

Cover for any event

No event is too big or too small. We've provided medical cover across the full spectrum of public and private events.

🤼 Wrestling shows
🎪 Gala days
🎵 Music festivals
🚴 Cycling events
🐎 Equestrian events
🎬 Drive-in cinema
✈️ Airshows
🏟️ Sporting events
🌃 Nightclubs
🎥 TV & film production
What we provide

The right team & resources

From a single first aider to a full multi-tier medical operation with doctors and A&E ambulances — we build the team your event needs.

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Medical Managers

Plan and oversee event healthcare and coordinate the on-site medical team.

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Medical Controllers

Run the control room — receiving assistance calls and dispatching the right resources.

First Aiders

Trained in event first aid, manual handling, Basic Life Support and AED use.

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First Responders (FREC 3 & 4)

Enhanced skills — patient observations, airway management, oxygen and Entonox.

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Cycle Response Units

First-responder trained crews delivering intermediate care to remote areas of your event.

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Nurses & Advanced Nurse Practitioners

NMC-registered — including wound gluing and suturing on site.

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Technicians

Intermediate assessment, traumatic injury treatment and medication administration.

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Paramedics

HCPC-registered — Advanced Life Support, cannulation, drug therapy and PHTLS.

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Doctors

GMC-registered — expert assessment, prescriptions, ALS and surgical techniques.

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Control Room & Dispatch

Live coordination of every resource from our real-time dispatch platform.

🚑 Fully-equipped A&E ambulances
🚙 4x4 ambulance
Rapid Response Units (RRUs)
Our work

On the ground across Scotland

From Pride Glasgow and match days to Hogmanay on the streets of Kilmarnock — here's our team in action.

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Training courses

First aid & CPR — it saves lives

Take some time to learn first aid and CPR. It works, and it saves lives. Our experienced clinical team delivers practical, confidence-building training for workplaces, community groups and individuals.

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Learn with us

Workplace & community first aid training

Whether you need certified workplace first aiders or want to run a community CPR session, our training staff will build a course around you. Courses are arranged by appointment — get in touch and a member of our training team will be in contact.

  • First Aid & CPR for workplaces and individuals
  • Free CPR demonstrations for schools & community groups
  • Supporting Scotland's out-of-hospital cardiac arrest strategy

Training enquiries: 01563 593144

Community · Operation SafeKillie

Keeping Kilmarnock safe

Operation SafeKillie is an initiative in East Ayrshire focused on improving safety in Kilmarnock town centre. Bringing together local authorities, emergency services and community organisations, our Street Medic team — First Aiders, FREC 3 & 4 responders, technicians, nurses and paramedics — protects the public and frontline workers while easing pressure on emergency services through visibility, coordination and early intervention.

Friday19:00 – 02:30
Saturday19:00 – 04:00
Special eventsEaster · Halloween · Hogmanay · match days

We also provide free CPR demonstrations and educational talks to schools and community groups across the area.

Meet the team

The people behind E.R Medical

A dedicated team with backgrounds across the fire service, ambulance service and frontline clinical care.

Emma Laird

Emma Laird

Company Director

From Scottish Fire & Rescue into event medical services, Emma co-founded E.R Medical in 2021. She has directed medical operations at major Scottish events including Pride Glasgow and Hampden Park, and leads Operation SafeKillie.

Ryan Quinn

Ryan Quinn

Company Director

A first aider since age 12 and a Community First Responder with the Scottish Ambulance Service, Ryan co-founded E.R Medical in 2021. He received a Brave@Heart award from the First Minister for exceptional bravery during a 2016 bus-crash response.

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Aiden Lynch

SafeKillie Operations Manager

A GoodSAM responder to 20+ cardiac arrest calls, Aiden joined the Safe Killie Street Medic team and progressed to Operational Team Leader, supporting the Scottish Ambulance Service.

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Alexia Gillion

Social Media Manager

With HNC nursing study and clinical casualty experience, Alexia joined as a Safe Killie Street Medic and manages our social media. She is studying Nursing at Glasgow Caledonian University.

First aid advice

Quick first aid guidance

General advice from our clinical team. Always seek prompt medical attention if symptoms change or worsen.

🤕 Head injury

Do

  • Hold an ice pack (or frozen peas in a tea towel) to the injury for short periods over the first few days.
  • Rest, and take paracetamol or ibuprofen for pain — avoid aspirin, which can increase bleeding.
  • Make sure an adult stays with the casualty for at least the first 24 hours.

Do not

  • Return to work, school, driving or contact sport until fully recovered (avoid contact sport for at least 3 weeks).
  • Drink alcohol or take drugs while recovering.

Go to A&E if

  • There's any loss of consciousness, repeated vomiting, a headache that won't ease, or changes in behaviour or memory.
This is generic advice. NHS 111 is available 24/7; call 999 for life-threatening emergencies only.
🔥 Burns

What to do

  • Run the burn under cold running water for 10 minutes.
  • Keep the burn clean and do not burst any blisters.
  • Never put creams or lotions on a burn.

Go to A&E for

  • All chemical and electrical burns.
  • Any burn bigger than the casualty's hand, or that causes white/charred skin.
  • Burns to the face, hands, arms, feet, legs or genitals that blister, or increasing pain/swelling.
This is generic advice. NHS 111 is available 24/7; call 999 for life-threatening emergencies only.
🦴 Sprains & strains

RICE — for the first few days

  • Rest — stop activity and avoid putting weight on the injury.
  • Ice — apply an ice pack (or frozen veg in a tea towel) for up to 20 minutes every 2–3 hours.
  • Compression — wrap a bandage around the injury to support it.
  • Elevate — keep it raised on a pillow as much as possible.

Avoid

  • Heat, alcohol and massage for the first couple of days.

Seek help

  • If pain doesn't improve or worsens — an X-ray may be needed to rule out a fracture.
This is generic advice. NHS 111 is available 24/7; call 999 for life-threatening emergencies only.
🩹 Minor wound care

What to do

  • Stop the bleeding, clean the wound thoroughly, and apply an appropriate dressing.
  • Change the dressing as often as needed; use waterproof dressings for bathing and showering.
  • Once the wound closes, dressings can usually come off after a few days.

Seek help if you notice

  • Swelling, redness, heat, increasing pain, or discharge (pus or excessive bleeding).
This is generic advice. NHS 111 is available 24/7; call 999 for life-threatening emergencies only.
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Tell us about your event or enquiry and we'll be in touch. For last-minute cover, call us directly.

Emergency last-minute cover · within 12 hrs07780 336029
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Office & training

01563 593144
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Hours

By appointment · Mon–Fri
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Registered in Scotland

E.R Medical Events & Training Ltd · SC776235

We aim to respond within one working day. For urgent cover, please call.

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Growing through new contracts — we're recruiting First Aiders and FREC 3 & 4 responders.

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