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Emergency Bleed Control Kits are medical kits designed for the public to use to control catastrophic bleeds and maintain life until the ambulance service arrive or the patient can be transported to a local hospital for medical treatment.

They typically contain four key medical components:

• Tourniquet

  

• Haemostatic Gauze such as Celox or Chitogauze

• Vented Chest Seal

• Large Trauma Dressing

Additionally they will contain common medical components such as gloves, medical shears and foil blankets.

The Daniel Baird Foundation developed the Emergency Bleed Control Kit with support from West Midlands Ambulance^[2] (page 12) after the tragic death of Daniel Baird on the 8th July 2017 ^[3] The kits were adopted and deployed across Birmingham in June 2019 ^[4] by West Midlands Police. West Midlands Police have continued to support the deployment of bleed control kits across the West Midlands, with PCC Simon Foster purchasing a further 400 Daniel Baird Foundation Bleed Control kits in 2024^[5] It is commonly believed the Daniel Baird Bleed Kits were the first public access bleed control kits across the UK with no record of public access bleed control kits existing before this. Bleed control kits are now rolled out nationally across the UK^[6]

The Daniel Baird Foundation have been recognised for their work in the industry, with Daniel's mother, Lynne Baird being recognised in the 2022 New Year Honors List^[7] as well as being awarded an honory doctorate of Education from Birmingham Newman University^[8] and winning a Pride of Britain award in 2020^[9]

The Emergency bleed control kits were originally developed after a fatal stabbing incident, however, this is not the only use of the kits, with the original design being to address a catastrophic bleed, not specifically a stab wound. It is commonly believed that bleed control kits are used on average 4-5 times a week, however, currently the reporting of use of bleed control kits is not widely publicised, with only high profile usage being covered in the media.

• In May 2024 a bleed kit was used in Bristol to treat a boy who injured his leg in a freak accident^[10]
• In June 2022 a bleed kit was used in Edinburgh to treat a man who became impaled on a metal fence^[11]

However, it can not be ignored that bleed kits are regularly required to treat catastrophic bleeds caused by knife crime or violence.

• In February 2022 a bleed kit was used to treat a 16 year old boy who had been stabbed outside his school^[12]

In a similar manner to defibrillators, bleed control kits are deployed for public use. This can be placed in venues such as pubs, clubs and late night shops, placed in combined defibrillator and bleed control cabinets or housed in dedicated bleed control cabinets.

The NHS would ideally like all defibrillators and bleed control kits to be placed in unlocked cabinets^[13] for faster access in an emergency, however, with communities and businesses investing private money into the kits there is a general reluctancy to do this in most locations, with remoter, quieter locations more likely to opt for an unlocked cabinet over a busier location.

There has been mixed support for bleed control kits from the UK ambulance services. The AACE (Association of Ambulance Chief Executives) states

However, it is important to note that the responsibility for the governance, training and despatch of bleed kits does not sit with ambulance services.^[14]

Whilst the AACE do not directly support the despatch of bleed control kits, various ambulance services record the location and despatch members of the public to bleed kits in an emergency including:

• West Midlands Ambulance Service
• East Midlands Ambulance Service
• East of England Ambulance Service^[15]
• South Central Ambulance Service^[16]
• Welsh Ambulance Service^[17]

Other regions direct users to register bleed control kits directly with the GoodSam app, a system used by the emergency services for deploying off-duty medical experts in emergencies.

In 2025 a project was launched to help map the location of bleed control kits across the UK to help the public understand where their nearest bleed control kit is.^[18] It should be stressed that in an emergency the emergency services should be called (999 or 112), however, the mapping helps educate the public and provides guidance on where the kits are needed.

The mapping project identifies issues in logging mobile bleed kits, such as those carried in police cars and on trains, however, as of September 2025 there is believed to be approximately 30,000 bleed control kits across the UK and approximately 10% of those mapped, suggesting there is a lot of work to be done by the project to find and record the location of the bleed kits. A similar issue was experienced by The Circuit which maps and records the location of bleed kits, with approximately half of all defibrillators now being recorded after several years of work^[19]

The Daniel Baird Foundation website contains useful information about bleed control kits: https://controlthebleed.org.uk/ Archived 2025-07-22 at the Wayback MachineThe BleedMap website contains a mapping facility to show the location of bleed control kits across the UK: https://www.bleedmap.co.ukGoodSam website for deployment of bleed kits in areas not supported by the Ambulance Service: https://www.goodsamapp.org/ Archived 2025-08-05 at the Wayback Machine