Blood Bikes Scotland

Charity working in partnership with NHS Borders, NHS Fife, NHS Forth Valley, NHS Lothian and NHS Tayside to provide a free of charge courier service.

[Craig Hoy MSP @CraigWHoy1]

🏍️ Very interesting chat with Tim from Blood Bikes Scotland. All Blood Bike riders are volunteers, and the organisation relies solely on donations to continue its lifesaving work. They save the NHS over £350,000 a year transporting blood, plasma, organs and medical equipment.

[Foysol Choudhury MBE @FoysolChoudhury]

Met with the impressive #BloodBikesScotland who deliver essential medical items on demand between hospitals, healthcare facilities and patients' homes, supporting both primary and secondary healthcare services.

They are 100% self-funded and run by volunteers!

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Another job 👍🏼

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Teamwork makes the dream work, lives and money saved today #bloodbikes

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@derbyshirebloodbikes
@NorfolkBlood @northumbriabloodbikes

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Today five Blood Bikes groups took part in a national relay.

Beginning with Blood Bikes Scotland in Kirkcaldy down to Berwick-upon-Tweed where it was handed over to Northumbria Blood Bikes. It was then transported down to Wetherby and handed over to:

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Specialist scientists in Norwich are running the only UK service for measuring the hormone at the root of this condition.

All completed completely free of charge for the NHS by Blood Bike volunteers.

#bloodbikes #teamwork #itswhatwedo #MakeADifference #relay #supportingthenhs

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The Norwich sample delivery is for the investigation of a young patient who has had repeated admissions to hospital with a racing heart and an unusually low concentrations of an electrolyte. All the common causes have been ruled out and the patient may have a rare genetic condit

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The two London sample deliveries were for proteins and hormones to be analysed for diagnosis and management of some of the rarer cancers. Monitoring concentrations can give Doctors a heads-up if treatment is working or if cancer may be coming back.

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and the other was taken to Charing Cross Hospital, in London.

You may wonder why these relays take place in the first place; sometimes samples require testing that only certain laboratories can carry out due to specialist nature of some rarer conditions.

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Derbyshire Blood Bikes who took it down to Northampton. At the last handover one sample was relayed with Norfolk Blood Bikes, who took it to Laboratory Medicine in Norwich, and the other two were relayed with Serv Herts & Beds. One was taken to The Halo Building, in London, :

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and the other was taken to Charing Cross Hospital, in London.

You may wonder why these relays take place in the first place; sometimes samples require testing that only certain laboratories can carry out due to specialist nature of some rarer conditions.

[Blood Bikes Scotland @BloodBikesSc]

Please check out our new website.

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We are pleased to share our stats for March 2024 which show that we saved the NHS £29,429 in the month, an increase of almost 15% on the same month last year.

The total saving for the first three months of 2024 is £84,827 already

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On route to meet #northwestbloodbikes for a relay all the way from Birmingham!
#savingthenhsmoney

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First job of the day, to meet our Fife rider for onward travel.

[Lisa Crane Cancer Patient Advocate @LisaAdvocates]

Fantastic turnout at @NHS_Lothian @echcharity Sick Kids for the Easter charity bike ride bringing treats to the patients. Including @coopuk goodies thanks to our store manager and @BloodBikesSc volunteer @KcTSpark 🩵

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Happy Easter. We have volunteers out the road today along with colleagues all over the UK.

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February’s work by BBS 🥰

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We are at the Bike show this weekend, come and say hello!