MEDIREK provide highly competent and helpful set medics to film and TV productions!
MEDIREK are on hand to support your film or TV production with set medics, nurses and paramedics. Our services are tailored to the film and TV sector.
We can provide set medics, nurses and paramedics for a range of activities such as location cover, stunt safety and cover and providing medical and welfare services to your cast and crew for the duration of shooting activities.
We can provide staffing from a solo set medic through to larger teams where the risk of injury, or severity of injuries might be higher and work with you and your production team to determine the best application of medical staffing.
All staff provided are DBS checked, uniformed and hold relevant, recognised qualifications relating to the medical care they can provide. This ranges from FREC 3 and 4, RTACC through to HCPC registered paramedics and nurses.
Our set medic, unit nurses and paramedics can be used in a wide range of applications, including:
- One Off Shoots – We can provide you with set medics to provide first aid and welfare services on a one off shoot that may only last a day, or a couple of days.
- Production Cover – If you need our set medics to cover the entire duration of your production, we can provide varied staffing to ensure total cover, in line with any inherent and changing risks associated with your shoot.
- Rigging/Build Cover – There is no doubt that the rigging and build stage of a production presents a very real risk of sometimes serious injury, especially when this is paired with remote or difficult locations. We can ensure you have medics on site for the entire duration of your build and rigging to ensure utmost safety.
- Stunt Cover – When you intend to undertake activities involving high risk stunts, we can ensure that all medical bases are covered by providing medics or paramedics to cater for if the worst might happen. Furthermore, we can staff additional personnel with rescue specific qualifications to ensure that the stunt participants can be recovered to receive medical care.
- Water risk and maritime shoots – We can provide medical staff, alongside adequate rescue staffing to ensure that you water based shoot can take place safely.
- Motorsport & vehicle based activities – If your film or TV production involves the application of cars, motorbikes or trucks undertaking high speed activities or motorsport style activities, we can source and provide professional and well equipped medics to be able to respond to any incident and render effective first aid to any patients.
- Remote or Specialist locations – We’re specialists in providing care in remote or more ‘specialist; locations. So if you production needs medics halfway up a mountain, or in a dusty desert, we can help. We can provide the perfect blend of staffing and equipment such as paramedics paired with nurses and even doctors to ensure that in the event of injury, the patient can receive high quality and definitive care, or be stabilised effectively until transfer to more suitable care elsewhere.
- 4×4 Capable – To add to our capabilities in remote or specialist locations, we can also offer 4×4 equipped vehicles so that our set medics can serve a variety of locations, even if it’s a muddy field in Hertfordshire rather than the Cairngorms.
Safety Conscious and Patient Focused…
We also offer health and safety consultancy, a pedigree that feeds into our set medic service for film and TV too. We approach every new engagement with safety in mind first and foremost and look to understand the exact requirements and risks of your production so that we can specify a bespoke level of coverage that will meet the productions medical needs.
However, we also understand that providing set medics & nurses is as much about cast and crew welfare as it is tending to injury. As such, our medics are on hand to deal with minor ailments that may occur during shooting in order to reduce lost time, and ensure the cast and crew’s utmost comfort during the production. We also look to identify any cast and crew with specific medical needs or ailments during the planning process and when we first get on set/location so that we can cater to their specific needs also.
When it comes to traumatic injuries, while they should hopefully be rare, you can be sure that our set medics will be equipped with a range of trauma equipment to allow them to to respond to the incident and give effective aid to the patient, preserving their life. Just because a set medic is on a film set, doesn’t mean that our high standards don’t still apply, and our staff have access to equipment akin to that found on front line emergency ambulances. Moreover, they are trained and equipped to provide rapid and concise handover to statutory ambulance services where required also.
Set Medics and Unit Nurses for…
Studios
- Farnborough Film Studios
- Winnersh Film Studios
- Wycombe Film Studios
- Longcross Studios
- Shepperton Studios
- Pinewood Studios
- Arborfield Studios
- Shinfield Studios
- Bray Studios
- The Bottle Yard Studios (Bristol)
- Patchway Studios
- Ridgeway Studios
- Garden Studios
- Elstree Studios
- 3 Mills
We can also provide medics to provide on location support across the UK and even abroad.
MEDICAL COVER AND FIRST AID