Article tags: hospital

1. What is a coordinator?
(Fundraising and Coordinating the Riders)

This is the person that takes the calls from the Hospitals and tells the riders where to go and can be very rewarding. You do this from the comfort of your own home – the central phone number is diverted ...

2. How Freewheelers is funded
(Finance/Financial Information)

... how we turn your donations into tangible money savings, so that precious NHS funds can be used on front line patient care by doctors and nurses in the hospitals that we work for. Finally, the Sponsors ...

3. The Night Shift
(News/The Flying Crane Blog)

... Hospital, B=Chippenham, C=Trowbridge, D=Paulton, E=RUH,Bath, F=Chippenham, G=St. Martin’s,Bath, H=Warminster, I=Dorothy House Hospice, J=RUH,Bath, K=no hospital here (trick one), L=Frome, M=St. Martin’s,Bath, ...

4. A year of rising fuel costs
(News/News about Freewheelers EVS)

... bills of around £100 were to be the norm then we were in for a shock. Costs rose quickly, driven by higher pump prices and rising demand for our service from hospitals. By June our average weekly bill ...

5. Interview with Nick Archer
(About Us/Interviews with Freewheelers Volunteers)

... riding the BMW R1200RT, and I trying hard not to mess anything up. At about 10:30 on the Saturday night, I was tramping round Southmead Hospital looking for the Avon Orthopaedic centre. I had a thumping ...

6. Where has Simon been?
(News/The Flying Crane Blog)

... in the routes demonstrate how variable the rides can be. 15 of the hospitals Simon visited have been marked on the routes (shown as A to O). How many can you identify? The answers will be given in a future ...

7. A late night and over 40,000 miles for PJ
(News/The Flying Crane Blog)

... Bristol.  As I was picking up the samples I got a second urgent call to go to meet a rider from Oxford SERV at Swindon Hospital and pick up blood samples to go to Filton Blood Bank for testing – and ...

8. Everyones a winner in the Heart of Somerset Awards
(News/News about Freewheelers EVS)

... what Freewheelers do for patients and hospitals around the area.  Her parents, Cathy and Dave are pictured here with our own Andy Smith accepting the award. The awards were run by the local Burnham ...

9. All roads lead to the Royal United Hospital......
(News/The Flying Crane Blog)

The Royal United Hospital in Bath was the centre of my world for this shift. 12 of the 16 calls I completed were either picked up from, or delivered to the RUH. In fact I was there so often, I am now on ...

10. Late nights & wandering wildlife
(News/The Flying Crane Blog)

... be relaxing in front of the telly with mug of tea and a custard cream by 10 o’clock, but it turns out Monday nights can be very busy indeed. First I was off to the Royal United Hospital in Bath to pick ...

11. First proper flight on the Crane
(News/The Flying Crane Blog)

... This is another BMW R1200RT. When I joined the Freewheelers in January this year, I was allocated to the North bike as this fitted in with where I live. The North bike mostly serves the Bristol Hospitals, ...

12. Happy Birthday to The Flying Crane
(News/The Flying Crane Blog)

... The Flying Crane has made around 1,000 deliveries, including some emergencies where a patient's life was considered to be at risk. We estimate that the bike has saved local hospitals £50,000 during the ...

13. Co-operating To Save Premature Babies
(News/News about Freewheelers EVS)

On Thursday June 16th, riders from Devon Freewheelers, Freewheelers EVS, SERV, and NW Blood Bikes all worked together to get two hospitals out of a difficult situation. An equipment failure at the Oxford ...

14. Helping a sick baby
(News/The Flying Crane Blog)

... Labs at the Royal United Hospital (RUH) in Bath for testing. Later that evening the same call was received from Paulton. Another sample was required for the same baby. When I arrived at the hospital ...

15. One Thursday morning
(News/The Flying Crane Blog)

... on call Pharmacist in Bristol had discovered that the drug that the rider was to collect from him in Bristol and take to the Royal United Hospital (RUH) in Bath was out of stock. Relax. Then at just ...

16. A great partnership with Sainsbury’s Odd Down for 2011
(News/News about Freewheelers EVS)

... after a call to St Martins hospital that is just opposite the store. We are meeting with the management team in a few days to set up a programme of events. Steve, the store manager has already even offered ...

17. Two Record Breaking Weekends
(News/News about Freewheelers EVS)

... — each incoming call from a hospital requesting our services means that the coordinator has to call the duty rider, then wait for the rider to report that they have picked up, then delivered, and finally ...

18. Déjà Vu All Over Again
(News/News about Freewheelers EVS)

... a new Volkswagen Tiguan 4x4, a BMW R1200RT and a BMW F800ST. The Tiguan is going to be used in support of the new breast milk bank at Southmead Hospital, which is launching this year. The R1200RT will ...

19. Lions Clubs Donate Milk Boxes
(News/News about Freewheelers EVS)

Freewheelers would like to thank the Lions Clubs of Cheddar Vale, Clevedon, and Weston-super-Mare, who have donated a set of insulated boxes for use at the new Human Breast Milk Bank at Southmead Hospital. ...

20. Roads closed….everyone out for a run
(News/The Flying Crane Blog)

... was at its peak! And it had to be the only possible scenario I hadn’t already planned. An urgent sample needed to be collected from Shepton Mallet Community Hospital and taking to the pathology lab at ...

21. A late night in Swindon
(News/The Flying Crane Blog)

... from across Birmingham and the South West and their specialist analytical capabilities are available 24 hours a day, every day of the year, when the services of hospital based pathology laboratories cannot ...

22. Meet the riders
(News/The Flying Crane Blog)

... just before Christmas in freezing weather. Andy's longest Freewheelers ride was carrying a CD-ROM from Southmead Hospital in Bristol to the Queen Anne's Hospital in Birmingham. He didn't pick up at Southmead ...

23. The new boy and The Flying Crane
(News/The Flying Crane Blog)

... bikes, arriving home around 18:30 I let the Co-ordinator know when I was ready to be 'on-call' At 19:20 my first job came in, collect samples from the Royal Mineral Hospital and deliver them to the Pathology ...

24. Saving lives isn't always blue lights and sirens
(News/News about Freewheelers EVS)

... as a taxi may have done — leaving the delivery on the doorstep and moving to his other two calls, he reported back to the co-ordinator. On speaking to the originating hospital, the nursing staff there ...

25. Simon's week
(News/The Flying Crane Blog)

... Royal United Hospital (RUH) Pathology Laboratory in Bath, and then towards the other end of the patch to Frome Community Hospital and returning back to the RUH. Tuesday saw a new front tyre being fitted ...

26. Dave gets a kiss - a typical weekend on The Flying Crane
(News/The Flying Crane Blog)

... bike group Hampshire SERV at Warminster Services at 10:30pm to transport blood samples from Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth to the Blood Transfusion centre at Filton, near Bristol. It was essential ...

27. Freewheelers scoops £3,000 prize from NatWest
(News/News about Freewheelers EVS)

... then vote. All three charities are winners but for the Freewheelers volunteers it is obviously an extra special time.” Jason Phillips, a Volunteer Rider from Freewheelers said ‘Hospital patients don’t ...

28. A very busy Christmas
(News/The Flying Crane Blog)

... Crane, which was on duty 24 hours a day from 7:00pm on Christmas Eve right through to 7:00am on Wednesday 29th. Hospitals don't have holidays and people can get sick at any time, so we are on duty 365 ...

29. Freewheelers' Mel to star in Channel 5 Emergency Bikers
(News/Older Freewheelers EVS News)

... husband Martyn in the back enjoying the spectacle of a professional TV crew at work. During the day, Mel picked up surgical equipment at St Michael's Hospital in Bristol for delivery to the RUH in Bath, ...

30. November update
(News/The Flying Crane Blog)

... times to Frome Community Hospital to pick up blood samples from a very sick newborn baby that needed to go to the pathology laboratory at the Royal United Hospital in Bath, using blue lights and sirens. ...

31. Homes in Sedgemoor donates garage to Freewheelers
(News/Older Freewheelers EVS News)

... base in Somerset for storing the specialist boxes we will be using to transport frozen breast milk from the new milk bank at Southmead Hospital.  ...

32. Freewheelers supports Precious Drops breast milk bank
(News/Older Freewheelers EVS News)

Freewheelers EVS is happy to support the Precious Drops Campaign, which is raising funds to establish a breast milk bank at Southmead Hospital. Babies in neonatal intensive care units (NICU) across the ...

33. 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 ...

34. 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! gsYNFhO6c8g|480|385 7yjIJ8ibOs8|480|385 ...

35. Record-breaking Easter weekend
(News/Older Freewheelers EVS News)

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 ...

36. In the beginning
(News/The Flying Crane Blog)

... told about our bikes, the area that we cover, the hospitals that we serve and the things that we carry. After this presentation, the school decided that it would do some fundraising for Freewheelers, ...

37. Freewheelers join Attend
(News/Older Freewheelers EVS News)

... us to spend more on delivering our award-winning service to hospitals in the South West of England. ...

38. 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 ...

39. 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 ...

40. 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 ...

41. Notaro Care Homes and The Mangled Wurzels raise money for Freewheelers
(News/Older Freewheelers EVS News)

... Mr Notaro and his excellent staff for their hospitality and their very kind donation.  ...

42. Call Statistics
(About Us/About Freewheelers and the Service We Offer)

... and type of the calls 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. ...

43. 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 ...

44. Freewheelers and H1N1 Swine Flu specimen transport
(News/Older Freewheelers EVS News)

... 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, ...

45. 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 ...

46. 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. ...

47. Volunteering to Join Freewheelers
(About Us/About Freewheelers and the Service We Offer)

... hospitals that you will be likely to visit. Even if you know where a hospital is, this will still be useful because you will be shown key locations such as the porters lodge and pathology labs, which may ...

48. Donating to Freewheelers EVS
(Finance/Financial Information)

... programme. This is essential to ensure that we continue to provide a reliable and immediate service to hospitals in our area. Every donation, no matter how small, helps us to deliver our valuable and ...

49. Starting A New Blood Bike Group
(About Us/About Freewheelers and the Service We Offer)

... You also need to be sure that those who say they will do a duty are prepared to plan to do so. Any hospital trust will want to know that you are available when you say you will be. You also need to be ...

50. 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 ...