ICE can save your life
Worldwide emergency and medical notification service
When every second counts, emergency medical personnel need answers fast so they can quickly and safely give you or your loved ones the medical care they so desperately need.
The ICE team answer the important questions for you - when you can't. That way you get potentially life-saving medical care as quickly as possible.
Here's how it works:
- You provide us with medical information such as your allergies, blood type, medical history and any drugs you may be taking.
- Your unique identification card, stickers and wristband will alert emergency personnel to call us. We'll immediately supply them with the valuable medical information they need to know - fast.
- It's the kind of information that can help make sure you get the right treatment as quickly as possible…treatment which could save your life.
We call when you can't
If you or someone in your family were injured in an accident, would medical or emergency services personnel know who to call?
It takes an average of 5 hours and 51 minutes - and sometimes days - for family members to be contacted in an emergency.
That’s a long time to wait for news of a loved one who may be seriously injured or unable to communicate with medical staff.
With ICE, notification is minutes away.
Since our service began, it has never taken us longer than 13 minutes to contact a family member and tell them a loved one has been seriously injured following an accident, illness, disaster or other emergency.
Wherever you are in the world, the ICE call centre staff will contact your nearest and dearest, whatever time of night or day it is.
To join, simply provide us with the names and numbers (home, mobile, pager etc) of up to four people to be contacted in an emergency.
Members receive a unique personal ID code on a card to be carried, plus stickers and key tabs for cars, backpacks, coat zippers or shoes.
ICE cool wristbands will soon be available to alert emergency personnel that you are one of our members. These methods of ID allow medical teams and police to ring our free hotline. And we do the rest.
- The average notification time of an emergency is 5 hours 51 minutes
- In 2004 there were 280,840 people injured or killed in road accidents in the UK
- This amounts to one injury less than every two minutes
- Each year, police, ambulance and fire services receive more than 15 million emergency calls
- Nearly 18 million people are treated each year in accident and emergency departments