What can BASICS offer me?
Inside the members area we have
Our Forums
A Members Forum where you can start a group discussion on any aspect of pre-hospital emergency care, there are areas for the various working groups in BASICS, but there is also a Scheme Administrators area offering a considerable number of resources to those who are setting up or running a scheme. We have reserved a limited number of Forums for use by special interest groups, so if you can get an appropriate group of members together contact BASICS HQ and we will look at allocating these.
The BASICS electronic Report Form
This was designed a few years ago by Simon Brown, who leads the Quality Directorate. You can download this Microsoft Access driven database and use it to record details of the incidents you attend. You can print off hard copies of the report. Entry of data is in two stages.
Firstly insert the incident details and then from this you can add any number of casualty records. The drop down boxes can be set up with your own list of hospitals and other criteria, making data entry very easy. You can record drugs used with Batch numbers and expiry dates, equipment used and skills practiced. Each casualty is automatically allocated your own unique identifier number, although Ambulance 
Incident numbers can also be recorded.
The printed report is headed with the BASICS logo and gives both incident and individual casualty details. The BeRF also automatically generates reports on the work you do, providing the data in bar chart form. Reports include skills practiced as well as trauma incidents by type 
and medical incidents by type. These charts are a valuable addition to a re-appraisal portfolio. For those with a modicum of computer skills the raw information can be taken from the database and pasted into an Excel spreadsheet allowing data analysis in much greater depth. If every member of you scheme uses the system, end of year data can be aggregated using Excel and the potential for real audit becomes apparent.