Reception Arrangements for MoD Casualties (RAMP)
This page provides links to a range of resources to support members prepare for the measures needed to ensure that military and other eligible personnel (such as UK nationals, their dependents and allied nations’ armed forces personnel) can receive timely medical care in the NHS on repatriation to the UK.
RAMP is a routine part of emergency preparedness, resilience and response (EPRR) arrangements – a civilian (NHS) activity rather than a military one.
This page will be updated as new resources and other information becomes available.
Papers
- Management of Gunshot wounds of the limbs
- Negative pressure wound therapy versus standard treatment in patients with acute conflict-related extremity wounds: a pragmatic, multisite, randomised controlled trial - Lancet validity question paper
- A Trial of Wound Irrigation in the Initial Management of Open Fracture Wounds (4x increased deep infection with VACs)
- Effect of Incisional Negative Pressure Wound Therapy vs Standard Wound Dressing on Deep Surgical Site Infection After Surgery for Lower Limb Fractures Associated With Major Trauma - The WHIST Randomized Clinical Trial (VAC vs standard dressings = equivalence apart from cost)
- The Joint Theatre Clinical Case Conference (JTCCC): Clinical governance in action
- Guest nation symposium (Ukraine): management of musculoskeletal war injuries
- The orthopaedic outlook in military surgery - Colonel Sir Robert Jones 1918 (WW1 ortho reflections)
- The Surgical and Antiseptic Values of Hypochlorous Acid (Eusol)
- Report to the Director-General Medical Services on Our Recent Visit to France to Study the Carrel-Dakin Treatment of Wounds (1917)
- Preparedness for RAMP: Reception Arrangements for MoD Patients
On line reading / videos / lectures
- War Surgery - Working with limited resources in armed conflict and other situations of violence - Volume 1 (International Committee of the Red Cross)
- War Surgery - Working with limited resources in armed conflict and other situations of violence - Volume 2 (International Committee of the Red Cross)
- ICRC Management of limb injuries during disasters and conflicts (International Committee of the Red Cross)
- Paediatric Blast Injury Field Manual
- War surgery: Field manual
- The British Military Surgery Pocket Book (British Army Publication)
- Field Surgery Pocket Book British Army
- Clinical Guidelines for Operations (Ministry of Defence)
- Ring frames - JOT guidance publication
- Clinical Guidelines for Major Incidents and Mass Casualty Events
- WHO Conflict modules (includes: Ballistics, Blast, NBC, Burns, Chemical)
- BOA General Battlefield Trauma Resources
- BOA Paediatric Battlefield Trauma Resources
Policy and miscellaneous recources
- UK government response to the Covid-19 Inquiry Module 3 report’ Cabinet Office and Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) (September 2026). See Recommendations 5, 6, 7 and 9
- The UK Government Resilience Action Plan – Implementation Report (July 2026)
- How Would the UK’s Healthcare System Cope with War? (March 2024)
- Partnership agreement between Ministry of Defence and NHS England for the commissioning of health services for the armed forces (May 2023)