Long standing, multi prize winning, sector leading experts in the remote area medical and remote area risk managements spheres. Every year, we train delegates who will be operating on every continent, in every environment, from Antarctica to the arctic circle, mountains to deserts, outback to jungles. Trusted by the leading organisations in our sectors, from the top adventure travel companies to Mountain Rescue, the most elite medics in the UK Military, overseas militaries, TV and media organisations, Universities, Government Agencies and more. Importantly, as well as being qualified and delivering up to date, evidence based training, our Faculty have huge real world experience in their chosen fields. We partner with organisations such as the National Outdoor Centre and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. 

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We are the UK's longest standing Wilderness Medical Society Affiliate (by a long way), followed by the Faculty of Pre Hospital Care, Royal College of Surgeons (Edin), with members of our Faculty having sat on numerous WMS Committees and others Peer reviewing WMS academic articles.

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​We are thought leaders in and the leading provider of professional level, modular remote area medical and risk management training in the UK, running training from our delivery operations base in Snowdonia the International Centre for Remote Area Risk And Medicine, as part of our exclusive partnership in the remote area medical and remote area risk management sphere with the National Outdoor Centre, Plas y Brenin. Our expertise in this field was emphasised when we were granted permission by the Secretary of State to launch the Institute for Remote Area Risk and Medicine, 'Institute' being a protected word in UK law. There can only be one Institute in each field. Since then, our research work, alongside partners, has won multiple awards including from the Faculty of Pre Hospital Care, Royal College of Surgeons(Edinburgh) and the Rural General Practitioners Association of Scotland.

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Team members hold Diplomas in Mountain Medicine, Tropical and Travel Health, Dive Medical and other speciality qualifications. The team is made up of Doctors, Nurses, Paramedics, ODP's, Military Medics, SF Medics and more. They have significant experience in Jungles, Deserts, Mountains, Polar regions, from the heights of Everest to the depths of the ocean and sports, commercial and military diving context. Our medics (and ourselves) are even involved in space medicine research, training and simulations.​

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We have courses for both health care professionals and non health care professionals. Training is delivered by a team of passionate educators with no egos - just a passion to educate the next generation and to support expeditions, fieldwork and projects to run safely in remote areas. We invest heavily in the training and education of our Faculty and operate a robust and regular internal quality assurance programme.

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Our aim is to raise standards in courses accessible by the public, delivering training in both risk management (prevention) and response - including medical response post incident. We see the medical aspect as one element of a wider risk management framework.

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We have created global first courses in our fields (such as our work in Prolonged Field Care, where we are the very long standing UK pioneers in the field of civilian PFC) where we have identified what we believe are important training gaps. Our training is well established and long tested, year after year, by those using the training in a professional capacity around the world. Many have trained with other organisations before coming to us and we are both humbled and flattered by the feedback they give us regarding the quality of our training.

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We have close relationships with sector leading organisations such as the National Outdoor Centre, Plas y Brenin (with whom we have launched, exclusive, cutting edge Remote/Expedition Medic: Core Skills Programme  and Remote/ Expedition Leader: Core Skills training Programmes, UCL, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (we deliver the remote, austere, wilderness/expedition medical aspect of their online Professional Diploma in Travel Health).

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We have been involved in writing leading British (BS:) and International (ISO) standards for the fields we operate in, including BS:8848, the Standard for overseas visits, expeditions and fieldwork, as well as

ISO: 31030 - Travel Risk Management. We have Doctors who have worked for the British Antarctic Survey, Army, Air Force, A & E Doctors, those holding Diplomas in Mountain Medicine, Remote and Offshore Medicine and also Travel and Tropical Health.

 

The Faculty has 6 Fellows in the Academy of Wildernesss Medicine and Faculty members have sat on the Wilderness Medical Society Expedition Medicine, Operational Medicine, Fellowship in the Academy of Wilderness Medicine and Global Health Committees. Faculty include Doctors (including multiple Faculty members at  Consultant level), Nurses and Paramedics including those who operated within UK Military (including Tier 1 Special Forces) units as well as subject matter expert remote area risk managers and remote area/expedition specific legal specialists.

 

In the UK - and perhaps globally, we believe that we have the leading multi disciplinary Faculty in our respective sectors. Not all of the Faculty feature on the website.

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Three of our Faculty contributed to the new 3rd Edition Oxford Expedition Medical Handbook - either as authors or as an editor of a specialist subject area. Several Faculty members have also edited the UK localised edition of the Pre Hospital Trauma Life Support Course and Tactical Emergency Casualty Care texts as well as other remote area medical texts. There is a reason that remote area medics, disaster response organisations, government agencies, adventure travellers, expedition organisations and others come to us for training. Our multi disciplinary Faculty is a the top of its game - that is what our clients tell us.

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The team includes recognised experts with experience and qualifications to back up our practice.

 

If you are serious about complying with your Duty of Care for staff and local Partners overseas, want your teams to be able to plan field operations to accepted good practice standards, to operate safely in the field then we can help.

 

R2Ri was conceived by a group of like-minded experts in their respective fields during discussions at key industry events  (including exploration safety and expedition sector safety events in the UK and North America, including at the Royal Geographical Society), for which these individuals were expert speakers, communications between members in the UK and Kurdistan, meetings in Hereford and final stages in the Special Forces Club in London…all to bring together a team of genuine operational, safety and academic experts with significant expertise in the fields in which we operate. Now going into our tenth year, the organisation has grown from strength to strength. Our client list speaks for itself.

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The team includes specialists who have written internationally recognised remote area safety/expedition/fieldwork safety and Travel Risk Management safety standards - British Standards (BS:8848:2014) and ISO (ISO:31030) standards, team members who have sat on specialist industry advisory and health and safety committees, members of three Wilderness Medical Society (the global authority in Wilderness Medicine) Committees - Operational Medicine (including environmental and Prolonged Field Care), Global Health and also the Expedition Medicine Committee, Civilians and ex Military, Expedition and Exploration specialists, University level Lecturers, Doctors (including those who worked as Outdoor instructors before studying Medicine) who have ascended Everest and hold the Diploma in Mountain Medicine (along with Search and Rescue expertise), well known remote area Paramedics with TV and Media expertise, Travel and Tropical Health Training, Experts in Risk, Crisis and Disaster Response, Nurses with Mountain Rescue experience (and delivered Mountain Rescue Casualty Care training) who were responsible for training, clinical governance and quality at their NHS Hospitals, prior to leaving for academic posts, Kidnap Survival specialists, Survival Instructors, Intelligence analysts with Military and Security Service backgrounds, Off Shore Rescue Team Leaders, Ex Military Medics, Dive Medics, Legal experts, Mountain Leaders, Kayaking instructors, Outdoor instructors and Expedition leaders.

 

What the team have in common is that they are all experts in their respective fields.

 

Team members, collectively, have many decades of experience. They have trained, worked for or provided Consultancy to some of the biggest names in the Exploration, Expedition, Adventure Travel, Marine, Shipping, TV and many other sectors.

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​​Our 7 Module R/EMO:TE Medic Programme and Remote/Expedition Core Skills Programmes are unique, professional level programmes, up-skilling those seeking to work in remote areas.​

 

The team includes multiple medics, ranging from Doctors to Nurses, Paramedics to military Medics and more, Diplomas In Mountain Medicine, Remote and Offshore Medicine, Travel Health, Hyperbaric and Dive Medic qualifications, ex Everest ER, 2 x Ex British Antarctic Survey and much, much more . Check out the profiles on the faculty page.

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A few examples from our unparalleled Medical Faculty:

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✅ Experience on every continent, from heights of Everest to depths of the ocean

✅ 6 x Fellows in the Academy of Wilderness Med (4 Doctors, 1 Paramedic, 1 Nurse)

✅ 3 x Diplomas in Mountain Medicine 

✅ Diploma in Tropical & Travel health 

✅ FPHC RCS (Edin) Diploma in Remote & Offshore Med

✅ 2 x Ex British Antarctic Survey Doctors

✅ 4 x Doctors working on helimed in 2022 and 1 x Off Shore retrieval Medic

✅ Doctors, Nurses, Paramedics, ODP's. Military Medics, Mountain Rescue team Medical lead. Mountain Rescue Casualty Carers

✅ 2 x Psychologists, 1 x Psychiatrist 

✅ Anaesthetists x 2,  2 x senior A and E Doctors, 2 x GP's, PHEM Consultant

✅ Members of Wilderness Medical Soc committees including exped medicine, operational medicine & global health committees 

✅ Authors of leading remote area medical texts … more news v soon ;) 

✅ Committee members for leading U.K. Fieldwork and Expedition safety standards including medical considerations 

✅ We are involved in cutting edge research for Remote Area med - including with leading U.K. Universities

✅ NHS experience & training 

✅ HART experience 

✅ SAR experience

✅ Ex U.K. Special Forces Medics

✅ Expedition Medics 

✅ Military Doctors and Combat Medical Technician

✅ Hostile Environments 

✅ Offshore Medic experience 

✅ TV/Media safety medical cover & training delivery including safety cover for David Attenborough Documentaries

✅ FPHC RCS (Edin) representative committee member

✅ Where appropriate training solutions don’t exist, we create them - leading the way in remote area safety. 

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The R2Ri team invests heavily in training and keeping up to date with medical developments, techniques and equipment.

 

The team has extensive expeditionary experience in all environments. Team, members have also provided medical cover for solo expeditions to both Poles.

 

We run a number of Remote Area Medical Courses, from Outdoor First Aid, Remote Area First Aid, Pre Hospital Care Courses to 7 day Remote Area and Wilderness First Responder Courses, Advanced training for medics going to remote areas and Medical Gases courses.

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Please also check out our first aid page.