Abe Elkinson

{{short description|Irish businessman (born 1969)}}

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|birth_place=Dublin, Ireland

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• Businessman
• philanthropist

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Abe Elkinson (born 13 June 1969) is a businessman who lives in Manchester, England. He was born in Dublin, Ireland. One of five children whose father died of heart attack, this loss was to be the catalyst behind Elkinson's company Trust Medical.{{citation needed|date=January 2022}}

Real Business Magazine cited Trust Medical as one of 50 UK companies that are 'The Cream of British Startups'.{{Cite web|title=HSM MAGAZINE - Home|url=https://www.hsmsearch.com/Home|access-date=2021-06-01|website=www.hsmsearch.com}} Through his own personal experience, Elkinson is determined that Trust Medical will assist in preventing out of hospital deaths due to heart attack and workplace accidents.{{Cite web|date=2007-09-30|title=CHS - Corporate Health & Safety - In partnership with RoSPA -|url=http://www.c-h-s.org/issue-3/articles/p_48.htm|access-date=2021-06-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070930043103/http://www.c-h-s.org/issue-3/articles/p_48.htm|archive-date=2007-09-30}} To help deliver his message, Elkinson teamed up with presenter and GP Mark Porter and Journalist and broadcaster Michael Buerk. He has associations with the British Cardiac Patients Association, the Ambulance Service and Philips Medical Systems.{{Cite web|date=Oct 8, 2006|title=Trust Medical|url=http://www.trust-medical.co.uk/corporate/Trust_Brochure.pdf|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061008055054/http://www.trust-medical.co.uk/corporate/Trust_Brochure.pdf|archive-date=2006-10-08}}{{Cite web|date=2008-10-01|title=- Real Business|url=http://www.realbusiness.co.uk/search_tags/4776696/special-feature-50-to-watch-infants-of-industry-the-cream-of-british-startups.thtml|access-date=2021-06-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081001002026/http://www.realbusiness.co.uk/search_tags/4776696/special-feature-50-to-watch-infants-of-industry-the-cream-of-british-startups.thtml|archive-date=2008-10-01}} Trust Medical is the UK's first company to specialise in providing resuscitation equipment,{{Cite web|date=2010-10-21|title=www.elkinsonjones.co.uk - Who are we?|url=http://www.elkinsonjones.co.uk/page_1148838260542.html|access-date=2021-06-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101021010633/http://www.elkinsonjones.co.uk/page_1148838260542.html|archive-date=2010-10-21}} first aid training and occupational health services to UK organisations.{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/|title=Money|newspaper=The Telegraph|date=Feb 16, 2016|via=www.telegraph.co.uk}}{{dead link|date=July 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}{{Cite web|title=SP: Error|url=http://www.strategicrisk.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=9&storycode=361600p://|url-status=dead|access-date=2021-06-01|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20111002112055/http://www.strategicrisk.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=9&storycode=361600p://|archive-date = 2011-10-02}}

Trust Medical was closed the 29th January 2017.

Elkinson is a director of Elkinson and Jones, a company that provides advice to small- to medium-sized enterprises seeking corporate finance, business planning and structuring.{{Cite web|url=https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/business/business-news/abes-life-saver-for-every-firm-1126646|title=Abe's life saver for every firm|date=Oct 28, 2004|website=Manchester Evening News}}