1. 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 ...

2. 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. ...

3. Interview with Simon Jarvis
(About Us/Interviews)

... 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 ...

4. Interview with Andy Smith
(About Us/Interviews)

... 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 ...

5. Interview with Melanie Rowbottom
(About Us/Interviews)

... 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 ...

6. 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.  ...

7. 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 ...

8. Interview with Mike Belch
(About Us/Interviews)

... 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 ...

9. 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, ...

10. 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 ...

11. 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. ...

12. 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 ...

13. 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, ...

14. 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 ...

15. 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 ...

16. 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 ...

17. 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 ...

18. 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 ...

19. 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. ...

20. 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 ...

21. 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 ...

22. 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 ...

23. 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.  ...

24. 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. ...

25. 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 ...

26. 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 ...

27. 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 ...

28. 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.  ...

29. 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 ...

30. 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 ...