Senior Management Team

BASICS is governed by an elected Executive Council, each member serving for 3 years with the option to serve for two consecutive terms. The Executive Council appoints the Senior Officers of the Association for a 3-year term of office who with the Chief Executive's participation form the senior management team. Each post holder can serve for two consecutive terms with the approval of the Executive Council. The Senior Officers meet formally on a monthly basis by telephone conference and provide oversight for all activities of the Association. The chairmen of the standing committees report to the senior management team and they in turn report via the chairman's report to the Executive Council at its quarterly round-table meetings.

Chairman:

Richard Steyn is consultant thoracic surgeon at Heartlands Hospital in Birmingham and he has also worked in general practice. He took part in the original NHS Cancer Services Collaborative and was appointed the National Clinical Lead in demand and capacity for the NHS Modernisation Agency. Richard not only developed the illustrative models that illustrate the impact of variation on queues, but applies the systems engineering principles to improve the quality of his own clinical practice.

In 2002 he was awarded the Queen’s Golden Jubilee medal for his voluntary work with the emergency services.

Vice-chairman:

Peter Holden is a GP in Matlock, Derbyshire and has been involved in Immediate Care in all its facets for 26 years and joined BASICS in 1986.  A past Honorary Treasurer and Honorary Secretary of BASICS Peter is a member of EMICS responding within the East Midlands. As physician aircrew on the Lincolnshire & Nottinghamshire Air Ambulance since 1998 he was awarded the Queen’s Golden Jubilee Medal in 2002 as well as being physician aircrew on the MAGPAS East of England PreHospital Critical Care and Retrieval Team with the East Anglian Air Ambulance.  A trained and accredited Medical Incident Commander; Peter was Silver Commander at Tavistock Square on 7^th July 2005 when the bus bomb exploded outside his office. In recognition of his leadership that day The British Medical Association awarded him its Association Medal.  He is also the BMA lead on Emergency Preparedness.

Vice-chairman:

Tony Kemp is a nurse based on the Kent/Sussex border and he has been involved in pre-hospital care both in the UK and internationally for 25 plus years. He teaches pre-hospital care and is a familiar face on the BASICS courses as well as teaching internationally. In addition to his BASICS responsibilities Tony is Assistant Chief Nursing Officer for St John Ambulance providing the lead for professional and practice development.

Tony is a Member of the Academy of Medical Educators and works within industry. 

Honorary Secretary

Tony Bleetman is a Consultant in Emergency Medicine at Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust and clinical lead for the Emergency Department at Good Hope Hospital. An active pre-hospital care provider for over 10 years he is a HEMS doctor currently flying with the GWAS air support unit.

Tony serves on the JRCALC guidelines development group and coordinates a critical care paramedic module at Warwick Medical School

Honorary Treasurer

Vic Calland is a General Practitioner by training and the Director of a medical education company. A founding member of Med-ALERT, the Lancashire Immediate Care scheme, he has also regularly taught Fire-Fighters and Ambulance Personnel in aspects of Pre-Hospital Care. He is a Fellow of the FPHC. He has written a book on Safety at Scene. He is currently working as a Senior Clinical Advisor to the North West Ambulance Service NHS Trust and is also a H.S.E. approved Diving Medical Examiner. He has also worked as a Prison Medical Officer, a Mountain Rescue Team doctor, a medical officer to an Exploration Group and has done aeromedical repatriation work.

Chief Executive:

Ruth Lloyd came into post as Chief Executive Officer of BASICS in April 2002, having worked  in a variety of roles in the voluntary sector over the past 25 years.  Prior to that she worked first in industry and then for a quango, as Statistician/Information Officer.  In her spare time she is involved with fund-raising for other good causes.

Ruth was presented with a BASICS Award in 2009 in recognition of her work on behalf of the Association.