Complete medical services, from planning to response
South Wales Medical Event Cover Ltd is a 24/7 professional limited company based in South West Wales and covering nationally – event medical cover, emergency planning, patient transport and community first aid training.
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Event Medical Cover
Pre-hospital emergency medical cover for any size of public or private event, from a self-contained private ambulance service.
Every SWMEC team is briefed before the event by the lead paramedic, so all staff are aware of their roles and responsibilities and ready to manage a medical emergency. Our clinicians are drawn from paramedic managers, advanced and critical care practitioners, technicians, first aiders, GPs, critical care and A&E doctors and nurses – all active NHS staff.
Our clinical grades
- Paramedic managers and state registered paramedics
- Advanced and critical care practitioners
- Emergency medical technicians and first aiders
- GPs, critical care doctors, A&E doctors and nurses
- All active NHS staff, professionally registered and enhanced DBS checked
- Tactical Commander
- Operational Commander
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Emergency Medical Planning
Full emergency medical planning assistance and advice on best practice, in line with the Safety at Sports Grounds Guide (the Green Guide) and the Purple Guide.
The planning process includes all Health & Safety risk assessments. We contribute to the local authority's safety advisory group and work directly with the NHS Ambulance Service, Fire, Police and Health Boards. For every event we produce a rigid Event Medical Plan, a Major Incident Plan, Action Cards and a comprehensive post-event medical report and analysis.
What we produce
- Green Guide and Purple Guide medical planning
- Health & Safety risk assessments
- Safety advisory group contribution
- Event Medical Plan and Major Incident Plan
- Action Cards and post-event medical report
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Ambulances & Response Vehicles
A modern fleet, purpose built for our requirements, ranging from frontline ambulances and rapid response cars to dedicated 4x4 vehicles.
All vehicles are maintained to a very high standard by approved ambulance mechanics and engineers. The fleet is tracked 24/7, receives major servicing every six months and detailed safety checks every four weeks, and runs on a daily check, report, replace and clean system. Every vehicle carries Ambulance Blue Light motor insurance.
The fleet
- Frontline blue-light ambulances
- Rapid response cars and dedicated 4x4 vehicles
- Maintained by approved ambulance mechanics, tracked 24/7
- Serviced every six months, safety-checked every four weeks
- Ambulance Blue Light motor insurance
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Community First Aid Training
Accredited, approved First Aid and Defibrillator training delivered to schools and community groups across Wales, from our own dedicated training venue.
SWMEC is a Qualsafe Approved Centre and a CIEH Registered Centre. Alongside community courses we provide annual First Aid refresher training for client staff, run from our dedicated training venue near the M4.
Training and accreditation
- Accredited First Aid and Defibrillator training
- Delivered to schools and community groups
- Annual First Aid refresher training for client staff
- Qualsafe Approved Centre No. 906663
- CIEH Registered Centre No. 65458
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Specialist Patient Transport
A self-contained private ambulance service supporting the NHS, including hospital transfers and patient movements.
The same clinicians, standards and fleet that cover events provide both urgent and non-urgent patient transport. Every operation is backed by over 250 staff, a dedicated SWMEC manager available 24/7, a clinical advice line and an on-call emergency consultant.
The service
- Complete support to the NHS
- Hospital transfers and patient movements
- Urgent and non-urgent patient transport
- Over 250 staff available
- 24/7 clinical advice line and on-call emergency consultant