Article tags: patient

1. 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 ...

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

... from the main reception at Swindon of some pain medication that needed to go to a patient in Chippenham.  The patient in Chippenham had been given someone else’s medication and we needed to swap their ...

3. 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 ...

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

... us some medication, which needed to go to a patient’s home in Wells. After this it was off to Paulton Hospital to pick up a blood sample that had to go to the pathology laboratory at the RUH. So far so ...

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

... for a patient who was in Chippenham hospital. When I got to Chippenham, I had to pick up 2 blood samples from a different ward that needed to go to the RUH. I also needed to come back to the RUH via Riverside ...

6. 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 ...

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

... the day. This is a good example of how the Flying Crane directly helps the Hospitals and patients.  Without The Flying Crane, this baby’s blood sample would have had to wait until morning before ...

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

... past midnight, the phone rang again. The patient, now at the RUH, needed this drug urgently and the only stocks were held at University College Hospital in London. This time the call had come from the ...

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

... meet the patient’s need – just as in this case. I arrived at the Great Western Hospital in Swindon to meet another volunteer, this time a rider from Oxford, Bucks and Northampton SERV who had carried ...

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

Earlier this week the diligence of one of our riders may have helped save a life. Arriving at the house of a patient discharged earlier in the day, and getting no response at the door, rather than — ...

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

... being transported to the RUH, so it made a change on Thursday evening to take patients notes away from the RUH Acute Stroke Unit to Beech Ward at Chippenham, which is also a stroke ward. Now the other ...

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

... paperwork I dropped the package off at 11:20pm, well within the time. I assume the blood had to be matched for a patient in Portsmouth. Closer to All Hallows, I had a trip to Frome Birthing Centre to ...

13. 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 ...

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

... The nature of our work means that we rarely get to know what happens to any patients that we help, so we pray that the baby was OK and thank the school for providing the bike so that we could help her. ...

15. Interview with John Cooper
(About Us/Interviews with Freewheelers Volunteers)

... delivering to private addresses, like the patient who had been discharged from hospital to her sheltered flat without her insulin kit. Anything else you want to add? I have seen the work we do called ...

16. 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 ...

17. Interview with Jason Phillips
(About Us/Interviews with Freewheelers Volunteers)

... 2009 I have been a volunteer to ride “that very bike” and provide the service that we do to the NHS and its patients. What do you like most about volunteering for Freewheelers? Apart from the thrill ...

18. Interview with Melanie Rowbottom
(About Us/Interviews with Freewheelers Volunteers)

... and recently a patient on a stretcher… of course being a bike we do turn down unreasonable requests ! I commute daily and filtering through traffic is often challenging but on several Freewheeler runs ...

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

... great Adge Cutler. Several Freewheelers members were lucky on July 25th to see The Mangled Wurzels perform at a garden party held at Immacolata House, a care home for elderly patients with dementia run ...

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

... and non-urgent call contributes to savings of at least £150,000 per year for the NHS. Each emergency call helps to save the life of a patient. This page contains detailed statistics showing the number ...

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

... staff to care properly for a patient, or "as soon as possible" but not an emergency. Emergency jobs take priority. An example could be that a surgeon needs x-rays or notes to compare a patient's condition ...

22. Our Financial Savings to the NHS
(Finance/Financial Information)

The free of charge courier service provide by our registered charity's volunteer staff saves the NHS up to £150,000 each year. There are two different ways to estimate the savings that we offer. The ...

23. Our Service to the NHS
(About Us/About Freewheelers and the Service We Offer)

... are transported in accordance with regulation UN3373. X-Rays, scans and CD-ROMs Patient notes Frozen breast milk Any other medical items or small pieces of medical equipment such as syringes ...

24. Thanks from Musgrove Park
(News/Older Freewheelers EVS News)

... transport bone marrow samples from the children's ward at Musgrove Park to the Bristol Royal Children's Hospital. The samples were for leukaemia patient Jacob Hayes. Our riders rarely get to see the human ...

25. Angels On Two Wheels
(News/Older Freewheelers EVS News)

... liaison nurse, said: "Having worked for many months to set this project up, we are excited it is finally under way. "It will help us to provide an even better service to our patients and, best of all, ...

26. Riding For Life
(Uncategorised Content)

... specimens, patient notes, X-rays, frozen breast milk, and other medical supplies. In 2011, we made 3,400 deliveries, riding more than 130,000 miles.  Freewheelers EVS operates a fleet of specially ...