"A truly remarkable charity..." Sir Ranulph Fiennes OBE, Patron
Patron - Sir Ranulph Fiennes OBE
Named by the Guinness Book of Records as ‘the world’s greatest living explorer’, Sir Ranulph has circumnavigated both the North and South Pole; Was the first to cross the Antarctic and Arctic Ocean; The first to circumnavigate the world along its polar axis and the first man to walk across Antarctica.
MANAGEMENT
CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
Fergus Beeley recently retired from NHS South Western Ambulance Service Trust where he worked in the frontline emergency response.
Fergus volunteered in Ukraine in March 2022. He founded Medevac Frontline and returned to Ukraine as a combat medic technician for two further trips that year.
Early in his career, Fergus was a Producer at the BBC Natural History Unit in Bristol. He was responsible for the budgeting, health and safety, planning and logistics for large teams entering remote and sometimes hostile environments such as the Canadian High Arctic, the wilds of Kamchatka, Afghanistan and the rainforests of South America. Those skills have proved to be valuable today when the Charity’s personnel are deployed overseas to humanitarian disasters or conflict zones.
Fergus is not new to the charitable sector and has been both a Trustee and Director of NGO’s in wildlife conservation, though it was Ukraine that sealed his commitment to the humanitarian sector and particularly emergency pre-hospital care.
MANAGEMENT
DIRECTOR TRAINING
Peter Reeve is responsible for our deployments to train overseas. He has over 17 years experience responding to pre-hospital emergencies. Since 2018 he has worked as a critical care paramedic for an air ambulance charity in the Southwest of the UK, responding to the most critically ill and injured patients that present to the ambulance service. Prior to that he worked as a part of the Hazardous Area Response Team as an enhanced skills HART operative and the specialist lead for marauding terrorist attacks. His work included developing existing response models to acts of terrorism as well as designing new response models for emerging threats such as deliberate vehicle attacks. Pete is currently training HART operatives and other specialist roles. He has worked with Norwegian Search and Rescue service (SAR), offshore medics, Ukrainian emergency services and Ukrainian combat medical technicians.
OPERATIONS COMMANDER
Tim Harcourt is part of our Senior Management Team on the ground at a response. He has over ten years of military experience in the field of deployed medical leadership, management, planning and execution, with a particular focus on battlefield Cas/MedEvac. In 2012 he commissioned as a Medical Support Officer of the Royal Army Medical Corps where he served for several years before transferring to The Rifles. Amongst other roles, he served as the Battlegroup Med Ops Officer in Kenya, MedEvac Watchkeeper in Afghanistan, Observer-Mentor for Infantry and Medical units under training in Canada, and Joint Operations Officer for the NATO Enhanced Forward Presence in Estonia. In late 2023, Tim became a part-time Reservist in order to pursue a career in the humanitarian sector.
Tim’s experiences and observations of the limitations and risks of the public and military medical sectors, both in the firm-base and on austere deployments, have developed a keen ethos for the pragmatism, prioritisation and adaptability required in today’s increasingly common and unpredictable conflict and disaster zones.
TRUSTEES
JAMES RIMMER
DR ARDIANA GJINI
DR ARDIANA GJINI
Trustee, James Rimmer brings an astonishing amount of knowledge, experience and leadership to Medevac Frontline. He was CEO of the Somerset Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and Weston Area Health NHS Trust between 2015 - 2019; Director of Strategy and Formation and Chief Operating Officer at the University Hospitals Bristol between 2011
Trustee, James Rimmer brings an astonishing amount of knowledge, experience and leadership to Medevac Frontline. He was CEO of the Somerset Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and Weston Area Health NHS Trust between 2015 - 2019; Director of Strategy and Formation and Chief Operating Officer at the University Hospitals Bristol between 2011 - 2015. He was Director of Operations at Royal United Hospital Bath from 2009 - 2011. MSc University of Oxford,Honours Degree University of Bristol 1985 - 1989.
DR ARDIANA GJINI
DR ARDIANA GJINI
DR ARDIANA GJINI
Trustee, Dr Ardiana Gjini is an Executive Director for Public Health at NHS Wales. She brings over 20 years' experience of working in health and care services across the NHS, civil service, local government, academia, as well as overseas work in humanitarian emergencies.
Dr Gjini grew up and trained as a doctor in Kosovo, developed an int
Trustee, Dr Ardiana Gjini is an Executive Director for Public Health at NHS Wales. She brings over 20 years' experience of working in health and care services across the NHS, civil service, local government, academia, as well as overseas work in humanitarian emergencies.
Dr Gjini grew up and trained as a doctor in Kosovo, developed an interest in preventative public health approaches to medicine during the Balkan wars and built a passion for the UK public health profession working with colleagues as part of the World Health Organisation. She came to the UK in early 2000s to further her professional development, completing her Master of Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, her PhD and Public Health Speciality Training, and taking on local and regional consultant and academic roles.
About Us
Conflict & Catastrophe Medicine - Now open to PARAMEDICS
A postgraduate professional award given by the Faculty of Conflict and Catastrophe Medicine of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries.