I.C.E Please Read - Dont know where to post this......

alison74

Don't know where to post this, but I am sure it will be moved in due course. Posting it here as I use this forum and there's a few people on it just now.



> Following the disaster in London . . .
>
> East Anglian Ambulance Service have launched a national "In case of
> Emergency ( ICE ) " campaign with the support of Falklands war hero
> Simon Weston.
>
> The idea is that you store the word " I C E " in your mobile phone
> address book, and against it enter the number of the person you would
> want to be contacted "In Case of Emergency".
>
> In an emergency situation ambulance and hospital staff will then be > able
> to quickly find out who your next of kin are and be able to contact
> them. It's so simple that everyone can do it. Please do.
>
> Please will you also email this to everybody in your address book, it
> won't take too many 'forwards' before everybody will know about this. > It
> really could save your life, or put a loved one's mind at rest.
>
> For more than one contact name ICE1, ICE2, ICE3 etc.
>
>
>Graham Briggs


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Al_Mac

Ali,

Thanks for this, heard about it on the radio, apparently was already doing the rounds, prior to thursday.

Martin, please include this in the weekly email.

Thanks

Al Mac

alison74

The more people that read this the better I say and I have sent a copy to Martin direct in the hope he will send it out to his hundreds of thousands of subscribers.

MSE_Martin

Don't worry this has been in the tips for 3 day (ie i put it in this weeks template 3 days ago

pricefighter

Great Idea the more we can spread the word the better.I am glad to see Martin is highlighting it.

Already a thread running about this see
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=71452&highlight=case+emergency

If you want a short mobile URL so you can text your friends about it use
http://moburl.com/adwgjw You can also download a poster there which you can display at school,work,etc etc

mike_paterson

My Wife saw a programme on TV about this a few months back so we set it up straight away. Amazing how a simple idea can really help people.

Al_Mac

mike_paterson wrote:

Amazing how a simple idea can really help people.

Agreed, a pity it took last week for it to be so highlighted, sent it to several hundred people at work, had a read receipt on it, only two people just pressed delete.

pin

While I think it is a good idea, I've now had about 20 different people emailing me about it.

jonnibgood

agree it's a good idea, however when designated ICE person calls me I get "ICE" on the caller ID instead of their name..... any ideas?

wadewade

This was on the "Freebies" page as well.

My suggestion is that you enter something like:

ICE 1 Wife
ICE 2 Daughter
ICE 3 Mother

Then people can work their way through your next of kin in order if someone is unavailable and know roughly who is likely to answer the phone.