| Description Of Item | Bags provided to rural medical practitioners by the charity the Sandpiper Trust. Information taken from sandpipertrustorg on 9 February 2026:
'The Sandpiper Trust was founded in 2001 following the death of 14-year-old Sandy Dickson in a tragic accident. We provide emergency life-saving medical equipment within the Sandpiper Bag to rural clinicians to enable pre-hospital emergency care to be provided in situations where ambulance response time is long, or where the skills of a doctor are required alongside those of ambulance paramedics. Sandpiper also provides responders with the technology to connect them to the Scottish Ambulance Service despatch system.
Since 2001, Sandpiper has sent out more than 1,250 bags and saved countless lives. Sandpiper is a registered charity that exists entirely on personal donations and fundraising. We receive no Government, NHS or Local Authority funding. Each year across Scotland, Sandpiper BASICS Responders attend thousands of calls as tasked through Scottish Ambulance Service. None of this would be possible without our volunteers, fundraisers or corporate partners.'
Note on the item from the donor: 'most of its contents started expiring around 2017. No drugs in it, but a laryngoscope and an intraosseous drill which have batteries in them which may need removed if it's going to be conserved long term. It's from the north coast of Sutherland - Tongue & Bettyhill - region.' |