Message in a bottle & message in a wallet
This simple but effective scheme provides vulnerable people or people living on their own with a way of making vital life-saving information available to the emergency services and professional carers. We provide (free of charge) a plastic bottle containing a form to fill in with all the relevant details. The bottle is then placed in the fridge, where emergency services know to look – saving valuable time. The bottle comes with sticky labels – one for inside the front door and one for the fridge door – to alert the Emergency Services that information is available. The information includes personal details, doctor’s name and contact number, a description of any medical conditions, medication, allergies, family contact details and can include your repeat prescription.
A similar scheme introduced by Uckfield Lions in 2017 captures the same information in the form of a Message in a Wallet. Details are entered onto a small card & kept with a person in their wallet or purse. Have you got a bottle or know of someone who should have one? You can find one at local pharmacies, doctor’s surgeries, any Lion Member or the Lions bookshop at Olives Yard, High Street, Uckfield.