Who We Are
Ocean Medical International
Ocean Medical International Ltd has been supplying medical kits & equipment, radio/telephone medical advice and crew medical training since 1993. Ocean Medical International medical kits can be found on many of the largest and most high profile yachts in the world, with a range of medical kits suitable for use on any size of craft from day-cruiser to super-yacht.
The medical kits are manufactured in England & the USA, using UK & US licensed medications and equipment, with all instructions in English.
The directors of Ocean Medical International are practicing doctors with many years experience teaching MCA & STCW 95 medical courses.
- Dr.David Irons MB ChB MRCGP is the designer of the OMI Medical Kit System; an intelligent, easy to use method to aid medical problems at sea, or away from medical attention.
- Dr. Ian Marshall MB BS FRCGP FRACGP has many years experience as an MCA Approved Doctor. Both are experienced in emergency medical care, particularly in situations away from professional medical care.
- Kim Shields, European Manager, is based in Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
- Rebecca Castellano, US Sales Manager, is based in Ft Lauderdale, Florida; she is a former nurse with more than 20 years experience. Formerly with the Marine Industries Association of South Florida, she is a life-long sailing enthusiast and is well known in the Florida yachting industry.
Safe Patient Systems
The Company was born out of the Research & Development department of one of the UK’s leading NHS Trusts, Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust. It creates solutions, designed by clinicians that harness technology to enhance patient safety and deliver more efficient healthcare delivery across hospital, emergency and primary care environments.
Based in a hospital setting has allowed Safe Patient Systems to gain a unique insight into the problems of modern healthcare resulting in an ‘end user’ approach to finding simple solutions to real problems.
The Founding Director, David Morgan FRCS, is a Consultant Surgeon at Heartlands Hospital for 14 years and was a surgical advisor to the National Patient Safety Agency (NPSA), 2001-2006. David is also on the Local Implementation Committee of Connecting for Health (CfH), a board member of Medi-Link and on the Special Healthcare Group of AIM-UK.
The SPS aim is to improve patient safety by enabling & creating simple solutions to enhance patient safety and efficiency in healthcare delivery.
TheFirstCall
TheFirstCall team is an integral part of Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, which is a major international teaching and research hospital, and the clinical resource of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Aberdeen, where over 13,000 students from 117 different countries study 630 separate degree programs.
It is Europe’s largest single site hospital complex with over 2,000 beds and home to the leading international diving and hyperbaric medical centre.
Medicine has been taught in Aberdeen for over 500 years. The Regis Chair of Medicine of the University Medical School was endowed in 1497 by King James IV of Scotland and is the first chair of medicine to be established in the world. The Faculty is staffed by over 300 professors and senior consultants, 2,250 doctors and 4,000 nurses and supports over 800 medical students.
The acute hospital complex provides a complete range of medical and clinical specialties and employs over 7,000 people. Over 300 medical scientists work in a £60 million Institute of Medical Research, which includes ‘state of the art’ investigative and diagnostic equipment, and 5 Nobel prizes have been awarded to researchers in Aberdeen.
Medical scientists here have led such internationally significant medical discoveries like insulin and the endorphins streptococcus bacterium, the invention of Magnetic Resonance Imaging. It is, one of the very few places in the world where clinical practice, teaching and research occur on the same site – creating a world-leading centre of excellence.