Blood Bikes

Just trying to guage if anyone has had any dealings with the various blood bikes/bloodrunner charities.
if so can you let me know - the idea has come up in converstaion again and I think its being taken seriously this time.

(how do i get myself involved in these things)

Sounded quite menacing at first until I googled it (too many vamp movies?!)

Didn't know there was any in Scotland? Seen them down south but not here.

[Stu]

I like my sleep too much

Originally Posted by The Guru

Didn't know there was any in Scotland? Seen them down south but not here.

well thats the whole point - we want to bring them to scotland but want to know the pitfalls and stuff before talking to trust and SAS and NBTS

[Sir Trev]

I rode for SERV for two years or so. As I hate needles I could not bring myself to give blood so I decided to move it about instead!

Based at the time in New Malden, Surrey, my other half and I gave up every other Saturday night waiting for the phone to ring in an airless room behind a sports centre. Sleep was not easy as you could not relax properly, even on nights when we had no calls. The "shift" was 7pm to 7am and was covered 365 days a year.

Most of the runs we did involved picking up samples from the regional hospitals, going to the central pathology lab and were not urgent. It could be anything though and that was part of the buzz. Although we were never called to do it the log had several organ transplant runs noted in it, and the group folklore had the police helping out if the traffic was heavy for those ones. The most important runs we ever did involved pick ups from the blood bank in Tooting which meant an emergency operation was required somewhere. Quite sobering when it's early November, about 11 o'clock at night, and the doctor is waiting for you in the packed A&E waiting room...

Well worth doing if you can spare some time!

Contact SERV, they came to my bike club and gave a presentation; following this a local group was formed.

Originally Posted by Sir Trev

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Well worth doing if you can spare some time!

this this will take up all of my time just to get it off the ground ( GM4 is someone elses next year!)

Originally Posted by Essex of Essex

Contact SERV, they came to my bike club and gave a presentation; following this a local group was formed.

Funnily enough emailed them this morning but to try and contact the Oxon group as I'm down there in a fortnight and see if I could meet up with someone. Its a pain with them being so far south

Q - most of the big hospitals here, NRIE and St Johns and the Glasgow hospitals all have NBTS storage on site and labs for testing samples etc, so I'm not sure the demand for a bike runner service would be that high.

Even organ transportation isn't that frequent up here.

I hope you get somewhere with it though I know the rare occassion when you could do with urgent blood in the community (ie a PPH at a home birth or similar).

So Q/IP whats the latest on your 'Bloodbike' venture??