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Royal Air Force Medical Services
The Royal Air Force Medical Services is the branch of the Royal Air Force that provides health care at home and on deployed operations to RAF service personnel. Medical officers are the doctors of the RAF and have specialist expertise in aviation medicine to support aircrew and their protective equipment. Medical officers also carry out Aeromedical evacuations, providing vital assistance on search-and-rescue missions or emergency relief flights worldwide. Personnel and training The Royal Air Force Medical Services employs service members trained only by the RAF, as well as professionals trained by the NHS such as doctors and nurses. Both officers and aircrew are present within the Medical Services. Roles requiring specialist degrees such as Medical Officers (Doctors), Nursing Officers, and Dental Officers (Dentists), as well as roles not requiring specialists degrees such as Medical Support Officers, are all commissioned, with most (except general Medical Support Officers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of European mainland, the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The UK includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland, and most of List of islands of the United Kingdom, the smaller islands within the British Isles, covering . Northern Ireland shares Republic of Ireland–United Kingdom border, a land border with the Republic of Ireland; otherwise, the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel, the Celtic Sea and the Irish Sea. It maintains sovereignty over the British Overseas Territories, which are located across various oceans and seas globally. The UK had an estimated population of over 68.2 million people in 2023. The capital and largest city of both England and the UK is London. The cities o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Search-and-rescue
Search and rescue (SAR) is the search for and provision of aid to people who are in distress or imminent danger. The general field of search and rescue includes many specialty sub-fields, typically determined by the type of terrain the search is conducted over. These include mountain rescue; ground search and rescue, including the use of search and rescue dogs (such as K9 units); urban search and rescue in cities; combat search and rescue on the battlefield and air-sea rescue over water. International Search and Rescue Advisory Group (INSARAG) is a UN organisation that promotes the exchange of information between national urban search and rescue organisations. The duty to render assistance is covered by Article 98 of the UNCLOS. Definitions There are many different definitions of search and rescue, depending on the agency involved and country in question. *Canadian Armed Forces and Canadian Coast Guard: "Search and Rescue comprises the search for, and provision of aid to, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Evans (RAF Officer)
Air Marshal Christopher Paul Anthony Evans, (born 1954) is a former senior Royal Air Force officer and medical doctor. He served as Surgeon General of the British Armed Forces from 2012 to 2015. Early life Evans was born in 1954. He graduated from the Welsh National School of Medicine in 1978 Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery. Military career On 18 November 1975, Evans was commissioned into the Medical Branch of the Royal Air Force as a pilot officer. He was given the service number 5203329. On 13 July 1978, he was promoted to flying officer, following his qualification as a medical doctor. On 1 August 1979, he was promoted to flight lieutenant. His first postings were as a junior medical officer at RAF Wyton and the RAF Hospitals at Ely, Cambridgeshire, Nocton Hall and RAF Halton. He was appointed a senior medical officer in 1983. This followed postings to RAF Leeming, RAF Coltishall and RAF Valley. He transferred from a short service to a regular commission on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Baird (RAF Officer)
John Baird may refer to: Sports * John Baird (American football) (born ), All-American football player * John Baird (Australian footballer) (born 1980), Australian rules footballer * John Baird (cyclist), former racing cyclist from New Zealand * John Baird (footballer, born 1870) (1870–1905), Scottish footballer * John Baird (footballer, born 1985), Scottish footballer playing for Forfar Athletic * John Campbell Baird (1856–1902), Scottish footballer Politics and government * John Baird, Lord Newbyth (1620–1698), Scottish advocate, judge, politician and diplomat * John Baird, 1st Viscount Stonehaven (1874–1941), eighth Governor-General of Australia * John Baird (Canadian politician) (born 1969), Canadian politician and former cabinet minister * John Baird (Michigan politician) (1859–1934), Michigan State Representative and Senator British MPs * Sir John Baird, 2nd Baronet (1686–1745), Scottish Member of Parliament for Edinburghshire * John Baird (North West Lanarks ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Surgeon-General (United Kingdom)
The title Surgeon General has been used for different purposes at different times in the United Kingdom. Initially it was the designation of a director of the Army's medical services. Subsequently it was a senior rank in the Army Medical Department (and, briefly, in the Royal Navy). Having lapsed after the First World War, the title was again revived in the late 20th century for the most senior uniformed medical officer in the British Armed Forces. Currently, it pertains to a senior uniformed medical officer, working under the Director General Defence Medical Services. Army Office With the formation of a standing army in the 1660s, there was a need for greater co-ordination of the provision of medical services (which had previously been arranged on a more ''ad hoc'' basis by individual regiments). In Ireland, a Physician-General was appointed in 1660, and a Surgeon-General in 1661. In 1664 the King's Physician-in-Ordinary and Serjeant Surgeon took on a similar role informally, befo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nigel Mills (RAF Officer)
Air Marshal Sir Nigel Holroyd Mills, (12 November 1932 – 18 October 1991) was a British military doctor. Career Mills was the son of Air Chief Marshal Sir George Mills. He was educated at Berkhamsted School and Middlesex Hospital Medical School. He was Director General Medical Services (Royal Air Force) from 1987 to 1990 and Surgeon General Surgeon general (: surgeons general) is a title used in several Commonwealth countries and most NATO nations to refer either to a senior military medical officer or to a senior uniformed physician commissioned by the government and entrusted with p ... from 1990 to 1991. References External links RCP London, Lives of the Fellows: Sir Nigel Holroyd Mills {{DEFAULTSORT:Mills, Nigel People educated at Berkhamsted School Royal Air Force air marshals Knights Commander of the Order of the British Empire Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians Fellows of the Royal College of General Practitioners 1932 births 1991 deaths ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Charles Hurrell
Air Vice Marshal Frederick "Freddie" Charles Hurrell, (24 April 1928 – 3 October 2008) was a senior medical officer in the Royal Air Force who spent his 35-year military career in aviation medicine and served as Director-General of the RAF Medical Services from 1986 to 1988. Early years Hurrell was born in the Lady Ozanne Maternity Hospital in Guernsey in 1928, the son of Alexander John Hurrell (1884–1933), a British Army officer, and a Spanish mother, Maria Del Carmen Bierma Cordero (1887–1968). His father died in 1933 and from the age of eight Hurrell was educated at the Royal Masonic School for Boys in Bushey in Hertfordshire where he enjoyed various sports and played rugby for England Schoolboys against Scotland and Wales Schoolboys.Obituary for Air Vice-Marsha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Soutar
Air Marshal Sir Charles John Williamson Soutar, (12 June 1920 – 15 July 2016) was a British medical doctor and Royal Air Force officer. He served as Director General of RAF Medical Services from 1978 to 1981. Charles John Williamson Soutar was born on 12 June 1920 in the English town of Ilford in the county of Essex. As a boy he attended the Brentwood School before going on to train to be a doctor at the London Hospital Medical School. Soutar joined the Royal Air Force in May 1946, and was appointed to a commission as a flight lieutenant in the Medical Branch on 6 January 1948. During his service career he was Principal Medical Officer at Middle East Command 1967-68 (seeing active service during the Aden Emergency), Deputy Director of Medical Organisation 1968-70, Officer Commanding hospital at RAF Halton 1970-73, Commandant of the RAF Institute of Aviation Medicine The Royal Air Force Institute of Aviation Medicine was a Royal Air Force aviation medicine research uni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoffrey Dhenin
Air Marshal Sir Geoffrey Howard Dhenin, (2 April 1918 – 6 May 2011) was a British physician and senior Royal Air Force officer. From 1974 to 1978, he served as Director General of the RAF Medical Services. Early life and education Dhenin was born on 4 April 1918, three days after the formation of the Royal Air Force, in Bridgend, Glamorgan, Wales. He was educated at Hereford Cathedral School, then an all-boys grammar school in Hereford, Herefordshire. Having won a scholarship, he studied Natural Sciences at St John's College, Cambridge. He then continued his studies at Guy's Hospital Medical School, and qualified as a medical doctor. In the 1950s, Dhenin undertook research for a Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree at the University of Cambridge. His doctoral thesis was titled "Radiation hazards in aviation", and was completed in 1956. Military career On 11 February 1943, Dhenin was commissioned into the Medical Branch of the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve as a flying offic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sidney Richard Carlyle Nelson
Air Marshal Sir Richard Carlyle Nelson, (November 13, 1907 – November 5, 2001) was a Canadian-born senior Royal Air Force officer who acted as Director-General of the RAF Medical Services from 1962 to 1967 and Honorary Physician to the Queen from 1961 until 1967. Early life Nelson was born in Ponoka, Alberta, Canada, on November 13, 1907 to Marcus Nelson and Jane Amelia Cartwright. He had two brothers: Meredith and Francis, both of whom served. He graduated from the University of Alberta with his MD and, In the 1930s, moved to the UK, where in 1934, he joined the RAF. Military service Nelson joined the RAF in 1934 as a Flying Officer. In 1936 he was promoted to the rank of Flight Lieutenant which he held until 1940. When the RAF established a field hospital at Fuka in the Western Desert, he was the senior medical Flight Lieutenant in the Middle East and was appointed to command it. As the post was a Wing Commander's post, he went straight from Flight Lieutenant to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Livingston (RAF Officer)
Air Marshal Sir Philip Clermont Livingston, (2 March 1893 − 12 February 1982) was a physician, aviator, and a senior officer in the Royal Air Force who served as Director-General RAF Medical Services from 1948 to 1951. Early life and education Livingston was born in Cowichan, Vancouver Island, Canada. He was the son of Clermont Livingston (1850–1907) and his second wife Mary Ann née Jarvis (1854–1935). He went to the United Kingdom after the death of his father and gained his Bachelor of Medicine at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he also gained a rowing blue in 1914. After university he joined the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve and served from 1914 to 1919 as a surgeon probationer. In 1919 he joined the Medical Branch of the newly formed Royal Air Force (RAF) and continued his medical qualifications in public health, surgery and ophthalmology. RAF career In 1929 Livingston was posted by the RAF to Iraq as a General Surgeon. He worked at the Baghdad Eye Hospital and gain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Munro (physician)
Air Vice-Marshal Sir David Munro (23 June 18788 November 1952) was a Scottish physician, senior Royal Air Force officer, and later Rector of the University of St Andrews. As Director of the Royal Air Force Medical Service, he pointed out in 1925 that the speed of air travel from countries where infections were endemic to susceptible countries required consideration by public health administration. Prior to this role, he was in the Indian Medical Service. He served as Rector of St Andrews University from 1938 to 1946 the longest to have served in this role due to there being no elections during World War II. References 1878 births 1952 deaths Alumni of the University of Edinburgh 20th-century British medical doctors Royal Air Force Medical Service officers Rectors of the University of St Andrews Indian Medical Service officers {{UK-med-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
