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The BBA National Burns Awareness Day 2024
The date of the next BBA National Burns Awareness Day will be Wednesday 16 October 2024.
The BBA National Burns Awareness Day 2023
The date of the next BBA National Burns Awareness Day will be Wednesday 11 October 2023.
Download the National Burns Awareness Day 2023 Toolkit
The BBA National Burns Awareness Day 2022
The date of the next BBA National Burns Awareness Day will be Wednesday 12 October 2022.
Download the National Burns Awareness Day 2022 Toolkit
Download the National Burns Awareness Day 2022 Report
The BBA National Burns Awareness Day 2021
The date of the next BBA National Burns Awareness Day will be Wednesday 13 October 2021.
Download the National Burns Awareness Day 2021 Toolkit
The BBA National Burns Awareness Day 2020
The date of the next BBA National Burns Awareness Day will be Wednesday 14 October 2020.
Download the NBAD Nottingham University Hospital Report
Download the NBAD Wythenshawe Hospital Report
Download the NBAD Alder Hey Children’s Hospital Twitter Feed
Download the National Burns Awareness Day 2020 Toolkit
Download the BBA Statement for the National Burns Awareness Day 2020
The BBA National Burns Awareness Day 2019
The date of the next BBA National Burns Awareness Day will be Wednesday 16 October 2019.
Download the National Burns Awareness Day 2019 Toolkit
The BBA National Burns Awareness Day 2018
The date of the next BBA National Burns Awareness Day will be Wednesday 17 October 2018.
Download the National Burns Awareness Day 2018 Toolkit
Download the Children Burns Trust Report on the National Burns Awareness Day 2018
The BBA National Burns Awareness Day 2017
The BBA National Burns Awareness Day was held on Wednesday 18 October 2017.
A report on the day’s activities will follow in due course.
The BBA National Burns Awareness Day – 19 October 2016
The BBA National Burns Awareness Day was held on 19 October 2016. Mr Ken Dunn, Chair of the BBA Prevention Sub-Committee reported a hugely successful 3rd National Burn Awareness Day.
In 2016 the British Burn Association’s Twitter account (@BritishBurn) was updated with custom infographics and used to increase our social media presence to reach more people, offering advice on burn prevention and First Aid.
There was increased media coverage with radio and TV interviews, You Tube videos and local radio and newspapers reporting on burn awareness. Charities displayed information links on their websites and used social media to raise awareness.
Burn services displayed information in their local hospitals offering advice on burn prevention and First Aid. Other activities included cake sales, quizzes, fridge magnets and retail park hopping. The National Burn Awareness Card highlighting the “Three C’s” Burn First Aid Message was distributed.
The Fire Service supported the awareness day offering advice about home and firework safety, smoke alarm checks as well as advice on fancy dress costumes.
The Prevention Sub-Committee would like to applaud the efforts of all those involved in making the 2016 Burn Awareness Day a huge success, and look forward to next year’s campaign.
BBA National Burn Awareness Day – 21 October 2015
Mr Ken Dunn, the BBA Prevention Sub-Committee Chair is delighted to report the success of the Burn Awareness Day.
Hospitals, schools and play groups participated in the day and activities included surveys, cake sales, and park to park “hopping”. There was good coverage by social media and radio and TV played a prominent role with the burn services. A National Burn Awareness Card was released which highlighted the “Three C’s” Burn First Aid Message.
The Fire & Rescue Service supported the burn services and offered advice on fancy dress costumes, firework safety and house safety checks. Charities displayed information links on their websites and used social media to raise awareness.
The Prevention Sub-Committee would like to applaud the efforts of all those involved in making the 2015 Burn Awareness Day a huge success.
BBA Prevention: Burns Awareness Day 2014
The British Burn Association promotes an annual Burns Awareness Day
Download the Awareness Day Report – 23rd November 2014
National Burn Prevention Meeting welcomes Mary Creagh MP
The event was hosted by the Lord Mayor of Birmingham and attended by the Labour MP for Wakefield, Mary Creagh MP. Mary took time out of her busy schedule to address the meeting as keynote speaker. She spoke brilliantly and from the heart to a totally engaged audience. Her emphasis was on the politician’s ability to effect change in injury prevention; a cause very close to Mary’s heart as her son was admitted to hospital with scald injuries from a hot drink. He has since made a full recovery but this made Mary determined to do all she could to help prevent similar injuries for other children.
In 2006 she launched a campaign aimed at preventing scalds in the home. She brought together medical experts, campaign groups, a well-known celebrity and victims of scalds to lobby the government to change building regulations to prevent people being burned by scalding hot bath water. Mary pressured the government to make the fitting of a water temperature regulating device (Thermostatic Mixing Valve (TMV)) compulsory in new bathrooms. In 2009, after a 3 year “Hot Water Burns Like Fire” campaign, the government confirmed that from April 2010 TMVs would be fitted to all new and refurbished homes in England. This was one of the most major advances in burn care prevention in recent times.
Of those attending the meeting were staff from clinical teams, public health services, fire brigades, Ambulance Trusts, charities and patients. The speakers were leaders in their field and at the forefront of UK prevention work. Topics included hot drink injury prevention, NICE guidelines, current UK burn prevention perspectives and research programmes and how this work could be coordinated and developed. The meeting was very well received with all comments positive and enthusiastic.
Amber Young, BBA Prevention Chair and Children’s Burns Lead, South West UK Children’s Burn Centre, Frenchay Hospital Bristol, summarised:
“180 children are seen in hospital every day with scalds due to hot drink spillages. We need a co-ordinated approach across the country to change this and other entirely preventable burn injuries for the benefit of the UK population. If this, the 1st British Burn Association Prevention Day, raises the profile of burn injury prevention it will have made a difference to UK healthcare and to current and future burn patients. Mary Creagh has made previous major advances in the field of burn prevention and we are hugely appreciative of her time and for speaking so eloquently today”
