New concept to help emergency services if they are called to your house - Fab.

[Radley]

Went to the doctors this morning and there is a fab new idea that is being thought up that may go nationwide.

It's called Message In A Bottle.

There are some leaflets which you fill in for each member of the family.

The information is kept in a plastic bottle. The bottle is kept in the fridge where the emergency services will expect to find it in the event of being called to your home.

They will know you have a bottle by the green labels. One if fixed to the outside of your fridge door, the others to the insides of your internal doors, ideally just above the door handle where they can easily be seen from the inside of your house only.

What do you think? Never heard of this concept before but I think it is fab.

im guessing that the bottle will have all your medical info etc, what meds you are on, it seems like a good idea to me.

however you would have to remember to update the info in the bottles otherwise they would be useless!

I can just see DP.
"bloody awful, this new smoothie...."

I am a plum,

Yes, it has medical info, doctors details, any illnesses, medication etc.

Its fab, i'm just filling out our forms now, there is even space to put a photo if you wish.

LOL Blu

It's supported by

West Yorkshire Ambulance Service
Police
Fire & Rescue Service
Age Concern
St. John's Ambulance

My elderly in-laws have this. They have a green cross on their front door so the ambulance crew know there is a message in a bottle in the fridge. Great idea - as they have to call an ambulance for FIL pretty regularly.

where do you get them from?

they are giving them out at my doctors surgery

and yours too, i presume

Am I allowed to put details one here do you think?

\link{http://www.lions105c.org.uk/cp2.htm\Message In A Bottle} this may help.

Mazzy, where are you from?

sounds like a good idea but could magine that they would spent time looking for it rather than dealing with the patient?

Liverpool.

(we have a fabbo doctors)

But jellyjelly if you have a complex medical problem and are unconscious (for example) they can get the bottle from the fridge and know instantly what they are dealing with, what drugs you are taking, previous treatments etc.

In the case of my FIL he has to go to a particular hospital when he needs an ambulance because there is a specialist team there that he has seen over many years so the ambulance know to take him to one hospital not the others in our area.

I don't think they would "waste" time looking for it rather than treating the patient.

i think it's a really good idea especially for people who live alone.
just thinking my dad should get one. he has heart problems and wears a medic alert bracelet as he is very allergic to penicillin and tetanus jabs.