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1. Tricky deliveries (Fun Stuff/Videos) Most of our deliveries are to hospitals, but occasionally we deliver to patient's homes. Rural Somerset can present challenges, but nothing on the scale of these! ... Monday, 12 April 2010 2. Record-breaking Easter weekend (News/News about Freewheelers EVS) As always, Freewheelers volunteers are on duty 24 hours a day during the weekend and bank holidays. So for a continuous period of 108 hours, from 7:00pm on Thursday April 1st until 7:00am on Tuesday, our ... Thursday, 08 April 2010 3. Interview with John Cooper (About Us/Interviews with Freewheelers Volunteers) ... to the staff in a Frenchay Hospital ward. They had asked for something completely different on the phone, but it had been misunderstood. A second journey was necessary to sort it out. I don’t really mind ... Monday, 01 February 2010 4. Freewheelers EVS History (About Us/About Freewheelers and the Service We Offer) Freewheelers EVS was formed in April 1990. By December we were registered with the Charity Commission and went live with our service for Weston General Hospital in January 1991, doing around 12 calls in ... Sunday, 10 January 2010 5. Freewheelers join Attend (News/News about Freewheelers EVS) ... us to spend more on delivering our award-winning service to hospitals in the South West of England. ... Saturday, 17 October 2009 6. Interview with Simon Jarvis (About Us/Interviews with Freewheelers Volunteers) ... happen quite often, but I remember one weekend being called at 7am on both Saturday & Sunday morning to take a pathology sample from the Bristol Children's hospital to the path lab at Southmead. I ... Tuesday, 06 October 2009 7. Interview with Andy Smith (About Us/Interviews with Freewheelers Volunteers) ... covered some 8,000 miles on it in the last 18 months. What do you do for Freewheelers? I am a rider on the East (Bath) bike covering the Hospitals around Bath, North Somerset, West Wiltshire and occasionally ... Monday, 21 September 2009 8. Interview with Melanie Rowbottom (About Us/Interviews with Freewheelers Volunteers) ... you do for Freewheelers? I am a volunteer rider on the North bike, I also co-ordinate which is a good way of learning where all the hospitals are across the patch and getting to know the riders. Recently ... Saturday, 12 September 2009 9. Notaro Care Homes and The Mangled Wurzels raise money for Freewheelers (News/News about Freewheelers EVS) ... Mr Notaro and his excellent staff for their hospitality and their very kind donation. ... Saturday, 15 August 2009 10. Call Statistics (About Us/About Freewheelers and the Service We Offer) ... that we do each year, together with a breakdown of hospitals served and items carried (as shown in the graph below). The following documents are all in Adobe PDF format. You will need Adobe Reader ... Monday, 20 July 2009 11. Interview with Mike Belch (About Us/Interviews with Freewheelers Volunteers) ... the Children's Ward which is right around the back of the hospital complex. Again, very unusually, I was met outside by a doctor who ripped the x-rays out of my hand and ran off. I was left to find someone ... Tuesday, 07 July 2009 12. Freewheelers and H1N1 Swine Flu specimen transport (News/News about Freewheelers EVS) ... A infectious substances affecting humans. Any hospital wishing to use Freewheelers EVS free service to transport any Swine Flu samples should make sure that we are not being asked to carry virus cultures, ... Wednesday, 17 June 2009 13. Public Perception of Motorcyclists (Fun Stuff/Images/Cartoons) You may think that Freewheelers' main aim is to act as an emergency courier for hospitals. But read our constitution and you will see that objectives 2 and 3 read as follows: To encourage safe riding practices ... Friday, 24 April 2009 14. Our Coverage Area (About Us/About Freewheelers and the Service We Offer) NHS Locations Served by Freewheelers EVS The map below shows some of the more frequent locations served by Freewheelers EVS. Each red cross is a hospital, residential unit or hospice that we work with. ... Thursday, 23 April 2009 15. Volunteering to Join Freewheelers (About Us/About Freewheelers and the Service We Offer) ... some extra guidance to help you appreciate what is involved on riding with blue lights and sirens. One of our riders will arrange to take you out on a ride around the main hospitals that you will be ... Sunday, 19 April 2009 16. Donating to Freewheelers EVS (Finance/Financial Information) ... on our fleet. If we were not able to do this our fleet would age and become more unreliable so affecting our ability to provide a reliable and immediate service to hospitals in our area. Every donation, ... Sunday, 19 April 2009 17. Starting A New Blood Bike Group (About Us/About Freewheelers and the Service We Offer) ... goes by, especially in the preparation and set-up phase if progress is not happening quickly enough. You also need to be sure that those who say they will do a duty are prepared to plan to do so. Any hospital ... Sunday, 19 April 2009 18. Transport of Infectious Substances (About Us/About Freewheelers and the Service We Offer) Freewheelers EVS offers a free of charge emergency courier service to the NHS. We will happily carry any items that a hospital may request as long as they can physically fit on our motorcycles and they ... Sunday, 19 April 2009 19. Our Financial Savings to the NHS (Finance/Financial Information) ... would cost if it were made by taxi. This is an easy calculation for Freewheelers to make as we keep a detailed log of every single journey that we make. Note that the distance between hospitals is only ... Sunday, 19 April 2009 20. Our Service to the NHS (About Us/About Freewheelers and the Service We Offer) ... for at pick up and delivery. We have arrangements with most of the major hospitals to use facilities such as switchboard, porters lodge or Accident & Emergency if a particular department will be closed ... Sunday, 19 April 2009 21. Thanks from Musgrove Park (News/News about Freewheelers EVS) A press release from Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton has praised the work of Freewheelers. Our volunteer rider Dave Watson, who works as operations manager for Illchester Cheese, was recently asked to ... Friday, 10 April 2009 22. Magazine praises Blood Brothers "Extreme Volunteering" (News/Older Freewheelers EVS News) ... by a car, and wound up in a hospital bed. You need an operation that may require specialist x-rays or scans, or maybe a pint or two of blood. Perhaps the surgeon's saw will need a nice new sharp blade. ... Tuesday, 10 July 2007 23. RUH saves Freewheelers rider (News/Older Freewheelers EVS News) An article published in The Bath Chronicle on May 14th tells how staff at the Royal United Hospital saved the life of Freewheelers volunteer rider Mike Cummin. In February Mike collapsed outside Bath ... Tuesday, 15 May 2007 24. Fund Raising Success (News/Older Freewheelers EVS News) ... was organised by Alison Mayer, an information Manager at the South West Public Health Observatory in Bristol. Alison heard about Freewheelers through the work that we do for the hospitals in the Bristol ... Wednesday, 22 November 2006 25. Freewheelers gain visibility thanks to ICU-UCMe (News/Older Freewheelers EVS News) ... will be worn by our volunteers whenever they are on duty, will play a vital part in keeping our riders safe while they are on the bikes making valuable deliveries to local hospitals. In addition to providing ... Monday, 10 July 2006 26. So long and thanks for all the fuel (News/Older Freewheelers EVS News) ... to carry out its valuable work for local hospitals may have been under threat. ... Thursday, 06 July 2006 27. Freewheelers exhibit at Sanders GardenWorld (News/Older Freewheelers EVS News) Freewheelers EVS would like to thank the management and staff of Sanders GardenWorld at Brent Knoll for their hospitality and for giving us the opportunity to exhibit in their Village Square events area. ... Friday, 02 June 2006 28. PRESS RELEASE (News/Older Freewheelers EVS News) ... he was then conveyed by ambulance to Weston-super-Mare General Hospital, where the rider was treated overnight. The rider was released from hospital at 12:30 today and is now recovering at home. The motorcycle ... Tuesday, 31 January 2006 29. Biker Service Saves Lives (News/Older Freewheelers EVS News) ... based at the MOD in Foxhill, is a rider. He will ride with new Freewheeler Peter Hawkes and a Bristol rider on Sunday. The pair will learn all the pick-up points at the hospitals and along with two ... Friday, 12 September 2003 30. Angels On Two Wheels (News/Older Freewheelers EVS News) ... lights and sirens, will be providing an out-ofhours medical courier service for the Royal United Hospital. The specially adapted bikes, which are run by a charity, will be transporting blood, drugs, X-rays ... Friday, 04 April 2003 31. Download Resources (Uncategorised Content) ... Sport & Leisure Magazine August 2007 Issue. Operational Documents Map of Hospitals served by Freewheelers EVS (updated 18/07/2008) - You must have Google Earth installed for this to work. ... Sunday, 26 April 2009 32. Contact Us (Uncategorised Content) We welcome enquiries from prospective new members and hospitals wishing to find out more about our service. We also welcome enquiries from individuals and organisations wishing to make a donation or to ... Thursday, 23 April 2009 33. Riding For Life (Uncategorised Content) Freewheelers Emergency Voluntary Service is a registered charity and winner of the Queen's Award For Voluntary Service, which provides an out-of-hours emergency motorcycle courier service to hospitals ... Sunday, 19 April 2009