Event medical cover for organisers
Event medical cover from EDMS Medical. Your event. Your duty of care. Our expertise.
Your event. Our expertise.
Your legal duty
Every public event has a legal duty: adequate first aid, ambulance and medical cover. The right level depends on your event. The Event Industry Association sets out the guidance in the Event Safety Guide (commonly called the Purple Guide).
14 years of event medicine
EDMS Medical is a specialist in event medicine for the festival, music, concert and outdoor event industry. For over 14 years, we’ve delivered high-acuity care on site at a wide range of events. The goal? Less pressure on the NHS – fewer ambulance calls and emergency department visits – throughout your event.
A proven track record
Built on senior medical leadership, rigorous recruitment, robust governance and clinical systems. And a highly trained, dedicated team of doctors, advanced paramedics, nurses, ambulance crews and first responders.
Our standard set-up.
- Field hospitals unsurpassed in the UK, with dedicated minors, majors, resuscitation, paediatric and observation bays
- Near-patient diagnostic blood tests, on site
- On-site X-ray – our own, never outsourced
- Critical care staff on site, with sedation, anaesthesia and emergency surgical capability
- Specific management for drug-induced seizure and malignant hyperpyrexia (we carry Dantrolene Sodium for this), plus on-site patient cooling equipment
- Diagnostic ultrasound
- A senior physiotherapy team for a wide range of muscle and skeletal injuries
- A medicines dispensing service
- Mental health practitioners who refer directly to local teams
- Ambulances, pit teams, crowd retrieval teams and campsite first aid points
As an organiser, you need to know that everyone on site – audience, staff, public, artists – can get rapid, professional, expert medical care. Immediately. And you need a provider whose systems are robust, credible and mirror the high standards of the NHS. That’s EDMS. We’re experts in medical planning, safety advisory group work, major incident planning and reporting. All to help you run the safest event possible.
Leave the medicine to us. You make the event great.
Already have cover? Make sure it’s the right cover.
Our medical plan audit puts a senior member of our team on the case. They’ll assess your provision against the standards in the Event Safety Guide (Purple Guide). And they bring significant experience of planning events of every size. Get in touch to talk through your requirements.