It is not very often that our volunteers learn about the patients that they are helping by transporting their samples for testing.
This evening volunteer Steve has collected urgent samples for a patient in the South West which needs to go to a specialist toxicology lab in Birmingham.
Steve has handed over the samples to Freewheelers EVS rider John at Giordano Services near Bristol. John will then hand over to a Midland Freewheelers Blood Bikes volunteer at Tewkesbury for the onward journey.
Amazing teamwork to give the patient the best possible outcome.....well done all 👏👏
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It's Plasma Donation Week, our chance to celebrate the giving types who donate plasma! 💙
Across our 3 centres in Birmingham, Reading and Twickenham, our donors look after our nation by providing life-saving medicines made from plasma.
This is used to help treat 17,000 people in the UK with rare diseases.
‼️ Plasma Donation Week is a celebration of our whole blood donors too - plasma is one of the components collected from your blood donations which, when added together, makes a massive difference.
Learn more ➡️ orlo.uk/uybh2
Yesterday was a first for us at Greater Manchester Blood Bikes Charity with four of our fleet in attendance at the same time at the Blood Bank picking up blood for hospitals in Manchester.
We are getting busier as a service as demand increases and appreciate the support of our sponsors and supporters who keep our service funded and operational to help the people of Greater Manchester.
Our motorcycles “Woody”,”Mailbox” and “Esskaye” with our riders Patrick B , Tony W and James C were all present and they were joined by Kevin B in our Kia “Reggie”.
Thanks to the John New Clews and colleagues at The Woodside club Middleton for the donation of “Woody” Mailbox Express and Darren Shaw for the donation of “Mailbox” and Smurfit Kappa for the donation of “Reggie” and sponsorship of “Esskaye”.
Below is a snapshot of our tracking system yesterday.
Could you help us through sponsorship of fuel or insurance please?
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