“London Hyperbaric Medicine is London’s leading Medical Facility for Diving Accidents, including the assessment and treatment of professional and recreational SCUBA Divers suffering from Decompression Illness (the Bends or DCI).
We operate a 24 hour national Diving Accident Helpline, staffed by experienced and highly motivated Supervisors and Diving Doctors from ‘Divers Emergency Service – UK’ (DES-UK), and manning a fully equipped Multiplace Recompression Chamber.
Why Choose Us
Qualified, competent and diver-friendly free medical advice service.- One-Stop-Shop for Medical advice, all Diving medicals, treatment for DCI and educational courses.
- All supervisors and most nurses and doctors are active divers.
- DES-UK runs an extensive program of Courses, Events and Educational Dry Diving sessions tailor-made for the diving community.
- Both of our chambers are attached to NHS-General hospitals and therefore have direct access to all vital services
British Hyperbaric Association annual conference: 18th to 21st November 2010 @ East of England Hyperbaric Unit, James Paget University Hospital
Thursday evening 18th of November:
• Welcome evening and cocktails
Friday 19th and Saturday 20th of November:
• conference program to be announced
• social programs for both evenings to be announced
Sunday 21st November:
• BHA annual general meeting
Please contact Dr Pieter Bothma or Maxine Palmer for further details by email at pieter.bothma@jpaget.nhs.uk or maxine.palmer@jpaget.nhs.uk , or by telephone on +44 (0)1493 452883 or 452475.
The conference will be hosted at the nearby Potters holiday resort in Hopton, with state of the art conference facilities as well as a variety of accommodation options, leisure activities and an excellent restaurant where the conference dinner will take place.
http://www.pottersholidays.com/Resort-Information/Video-Tour
The Conference Centre manageress has warned that accommodation at reduced conference rates is limited and she suggests: Please telephone our Specialist Sales Team on 0845 437 9892 quoting “November 2010 Hyperbaric Conference”, alternatively, bookings can be made by e-mailing the team on groups@pottersholidays.com A deposit of £30 per person is required, with the full balance payable 8 weeks prior to date of arrival.
Further information regarding accommodation and activities in the vicinity can be obtained from the Great Yarmouth Tourism website:
http://www.great-yarmouth.co.uk/thedms.aspx?dms=1&at=SV&sid=1&mstat=1&lstat=1
More Services
We continue to offer our 24/7 divers emergency service and helpline:
07740 251635
We are approved to accept all categories of emergency referrals
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Healing Problem Wounds
Assessment and treatment of chronic wounds
Events
ExCel centre, 27-28/03/10DES-UK will be on Stand 541 at LIDS 2010, come and meet and chat with the staff.