IF you are heading to Creamfields this weekend you may need to know where you can access medical help at any point.
And we have all the information you will need, including the location of the medical centre and the 24-hour welfare tent.
Warrington Hospital will be running a primary medical centre which will be located near to the campsite village entrance which will be open 24 hours a day.
The medical tent will be staffed with ‘a wide range of fully trained medical staff including Doctors, Nurses, Paramedics, First Responders and Mental Health practitioners’.
There will also be medical and welfare points positioned across the festival site.
Organisers of the festival advised: “If you need medical or first aid assistance, and if you can, head to the medical centre on site or approach a member of our first aid or medical teams who will be able assist.
“If it’s an emergency, reach out to the closest member of staff who will be able to contact our Event Control and get assistance to you; only dial 999 as a last resort as this may not be the best way of getting help to you on the festival site.
“We don’t recommend that you try to make your own way off site to hospital, access to medical treatment is available on site, you may delay receiving treatment by trying to access health services elsewhere, if the medical site team do feel you need transfer to Hospital services they will make the appropriate arrangements.”
Located next to the medical centre is also a 24-hour welfare tent.
The welfare crew will offer festival goers ‘non-judgemental support’ to those who are vulnerable through substance use, mental health or are a victim of an assault or sexual assault.
Helpers in the welfare tent will also be there to lend a listening ear to those who feel overwhelmed by the environment.
Creamfields organisers added: “A festival atmosphere and large crowds can be a trigger for some people, and our welfare tent is a safe space facilitated by trained and experienced staff where people can be cared for until they feel able to head back into the festival if they wish.
“Their staff come from a range of professional backgrounds including drug and alcohol services, mental health, social care, youth, and medical services, with all staff trained in safeguarding and supporting victims of assault and recognising mental health and how to give immediate support.
“The welfare team can also support you with arranging how to get home in an emergency, by making phone calls to family and friends to pick you up and then support you to the gates.”
There is also back of house drug testing facilities on the site ran by HazmatLINK.
Plenty of other information can be found on creamfields.com/
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