Article tags: patients

1. 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 ...

2. 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 ...

3. 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 ...

4. 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 ...

5. 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. ...

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

... “extreme volunteering”, but I think it could equally be described as “distance caring” in that we do not generally have contact with the patients we help. In fact, contact with our NHS customers is fleeting. ...

7. 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 ...

8. 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 ...

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

... remit. That may be due to timescales, geographical reasons, or often (for us) because there is no clinical need for the items - be they patients' belongings (spectacles, slippers, even flowers!), mailshots ...

10. 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 ...

11. 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, ...