Festival Health Services
What is Festival Health?
Festival Health is an integrated healthcare model that goes beyond traditional event medical services. By combining emergency response, health promotion, injury prevention, and harm reduction, it provides a holistic approach to festival medical care.
At the heart of Festival Health is the main medical tent, where guests receive:
- First aid services for minor injuries
- Monitoring for moderate intoxication
- Treatment for common festival-related health issues like heat exhaustion and dehydration
Beyond emergency care, Festival Health tents also focus on:
- Supporting guest well-being through health education and resources
- Promoting safe behaviors to prevent illness and injury
- Reducing harm associated with festival attendance
The goal is to ensure a positive, safe festival experience while minimizing hospital transfers—helping to reduce the festival’s impact on local healthcare systems and the surrounding community.
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Health Promotion
- Providing information about common recreational drugs and their potential risks
- Providing a safe space to sit and talk to someone about what consent means and how to stay safe on event
- Encouraging young people to stay in groups and plan for safe ways of getting home after the festival
- Encouraging guests to wear sunscreen and/or get out of the sun on a hot festival day and stay well hydrated
Injury & Illness Prevention
- Providing access condoms at no cost to promote safer sex (we know they are doing it so at least they can be protected)
- A diabetic being able to safely dispose of their used needles while on site
- Providing a quiet place for a guest to chill out when they are feeling overwhelmed and anxious
- Providing ear plugs to prevent hearing loss
Harm Reduction
- Harm reduction is a philosophy of providing education, products, or interventions that reduce the risk of illness, injury or harm without requiring abstinence from the potentially harmful activity.
- Our lens of one of acceptance rather than judgment i.e. “If you are going to do it, at least do this.”
- Providing supportive care to someone experiencing the negative effects of substances they took
