Blood bike, the Glossary
A blood bike is a specialist motorcycle modified for use as a courier vehicle for the prompt transportation of urgent and emergency medical items; primarily including blood, and also including X-rays, tissue samples, surgical tools, human milk, spinal fluids, drugs, and documentation; between hospitals and other healthcare facilities.[1]
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60 relations: BBC News, Blood, Blood Bikes Wales, Breast milk, Brisbane, Budget of the United Kingdom, Cabinet Office, Cerebrospinal fluid, Charity Commission for England and Wales, Daily Record (Scotland), Emergency medical services in the United Kingdom, Freewheelers EVS, Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust, Google+, Gov.uk, Government of the United Kingdom, Greater Manchester Blood Bikes, Healthcare in the United Kingdom, Hereford Times, HSE National Ambulance Service, ITV News, List of hospitals in the United Kingdom, Motorcycle courier, Motorcycling, Motto, National Geographic, National Health Service, Newark Advertiser, Nottinghamshire Blood Bikes, O2 (UK), SERV (charity), Severn Freewheelers, Shropshire Star, Stevenage, Surgical instrument, Surrey, The Guardian, The King's Award for Voluntary Service, The Northern Echo, Traffic collision, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust, Valentine's Day, Vehicle Excise Duty, Whiteknights Yorkshire Blood Bikes, X-ray, 1962 in the United Kingdom, 1969 in the United Kingdom, 1978 in the United Kingdom, 2008 in the United Kingdom, ... Expand index (10 more) »
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BBC News
BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.
Blood
Blood is a body fluid in the circulatory system of humans and other vertebrates that delivers necessary substances such as nutrients and oxygen to the cells, and transports metabolic waste products away from those same cells.
Blood Bikes Wales
Blood Bikes Wales is a blood bike charity based in Wales. Blood bike and blood Bikes Wales are blood bikes.
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Breast milk
Breast milk (sometimes spelled as breastmilk) or mother's milk is milk produced by the mammary glands in the breast of human females.
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Brisbane
Brisbane (Meanjin) is the capital of the state of Queensland and the third-most populous city in Australia and Oceania, with a population of approximately 2.6 million.
Budget of the United Kingdom
The Budget of His Majesty's Government is an annual budget set by HM Treasury for the following financial year, with the revenues to be gathered by HM Revenue and Customs and the expenditures of the public sector, in compliance with government policy.
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Cabinet Office
The Cabinet Office is a ministerial department of the Government of the United Kingdom.
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Cerebrospinal fluid
Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is a clear, colorless body fluid found within the tissue that surrounds the brain and spinal cord of all vertebrates.
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Charity Commission for England and Wales
The Charity Commission for England and Wales is a non-ministerial department of His Majesty's Government that regulates registered charities in England and Wales and maintains the Central Register of Charities.
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Daily Record (Scotland)
The Daily Record is a Scottish national tabloid newspaper based in Glasgow.
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Emergency medical services in the United Kingdom
Emergency medical services in the United Kingdom provide emergency care to people with acute illness or injury and are predominantly provided free at the point of use by the four National Health Services (NHS) of England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland.
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Freewheelers EVS
Freewheelers Emergency Voluntary Service (EVS) is a blood bike charity based in South West England. Blood bike and Freewheelers EVS are blood bikes.
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Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust
Gateshead Health NHS Foundation Trust runs the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead, QE Metro Riverside and some services at Bensham Hospital, within Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, England.
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Google+
Google+ (sometimes written as Google Plus, stylized as G+ or g+) was a social network that was owned and operated by Google until it ceased operations in 2019.
Gov.uk
gov.uk (styled on the site as GOV.UK) is a United Kingdom public sector information website, created by the Government Digital Service to provide a single point of access to HM Government services.
Government of the United Kingdom
The Government of the United Kingdom (formally His Majesty's Government, abbreviated to HM Government) is the central executive authority of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
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Greater Manchester Blood Bikes
Greater Manchester Blood Bikes – a UK charity providing courier services for the transportation of urgent and emergency medical items such as blood, human milk, platelets, samples, vaccines, operating in Greater Manchester. Blood bike and Greater Manchester Blood Bikes are blood bikes.
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Healthcare in the United Kingdom
Healthcare in the United Kingdom is a devolved matter, with England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales each having their own systems of publicly funded healthcare, funded by and accountable to separate governments and parliaments, together with smaller private sector and voluntary provision.
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Hereford Times
The Hereford Times is a weekly tabloid newspaper published every Thursday in Hereford, England.
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HSE National Ambulance Service
The National Ambulance Service (An tSeirbhís Náisiúnta Otharchairr) is the statutory public ambulance service in Ireland.
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ITV News
ITV News is the branding of news programmes on the British news television channel of ITV.
List of hospitals in the United Kingdom
Hospitals in the United Kingdom are listed in the following articles.
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Motorcycle courier
A motorcycle courier, also known as a despatch rider or motorcycle messenger, is a courier using a motorcycle.
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Motorcycling
Motorcycling is the act of riding a motorcycle.
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Motto
A motto (derived from the Latin, 'mutter', by way of Italian, 'word' or 'sentence') is a sentence or phrase expressing a belief or purpose, or the general motivation or intention of an individual, family, social group, or organisation.
National Geographic
National Geographic (formerly The National Geographic Magazine, sometimes branded as NAT GEO) is an American monthly magazine published by National Geographic Partners.
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National Health Service
The National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom, comprising the NHS in England, NHS Scotland and NHS Wales.
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Newark Advertiser
The Newark Advertiser is a British regional newspaper, owned by Iliffe Media, for the town of Newark-on-Trent and surrounding areas.
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Nottinghamshire Blood Bikes
Nottinghamshire Blood Bikes is a blood bike group which provides an out-of-hours emergency response service to the National Health Service, delivering blood and other urgent medical supplies such as platelets, blood plasma, samples and medical records by motorcycle between hospitals in Nottinghamshire, England. Blood bike and Nottinghamshire Blood Bikes are blood bikes.
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O2 (UK)
Telefonica UK Limited, trading as O2 (stylised as O2), is a British telecommunications services provider, headquartered in Reading, England which operates under the O2 brand.
SERV (charity)
Service by Emergency Rider Volunteers / Service by Emergency Response Volunteers, or SERV, is the name used by a number of blood bike charities based in England, whose volunteers provide a motorcycle courier service, free of charge, to the National Health Service and the air ambulance charities.
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Severn Freewheelers
Severn Freewheelers Emergency Voluntary Service is a blood bike charity based in the Severn Valley in western England. Blood bike and Severn Freewheelers are blood bikes.
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Shropshire Star
The Shropshire Star is reputedly the twelfth biggest-selling regional newspaper in the UK.
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Stevenage
Stevenage is a town and borough in Hertfordshire, England, about north of London. Stevenage is east of junctions 7 and 8 of the A1(M), between Letchworth Garden City to the north and Welwyn Garden City to the south. In 1946, Stevenage was designated the United Kingdom's first New Town under the New Towns Act.
Surgical instrument
A surgical instrument is a medical device for performing specific actions or carrying out desired effects during a surgery or operation, such as modifying biological tissue, or to provide access for viewing it.
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Surrey
Surrey is a ceremonial county in South East England and one of the home counties.
The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
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The King's Award for Voluntary Service
The King's Award for Voluntary Service, previously known as The Queen's Award for Voluntary Service, is an annual award given to groups in the voluntary sector of the United Kingdom.
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The Northern Echo
The Northern Echo is a regional daily morning newspaper based in the town of Darlington in North East England, serving mainly southern County Durham and northern Yorkshire.
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Traffic collision
A traffic collision, also known as a motor vehicle collision, or car crash, occurs when a vehicle collides with another vehicle, pedestrian, animal, road debris, or other moving or stationary obstruction, such as a tree, pole or building.
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University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust
University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust runs University Hospital Coventry and the Hospital of St. Cross situated in Rugby, Warwickshire.
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University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust
University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust (UHMB or UHMBT) is an NHS Foundation Trust in North West England, providing services in South Cumbria and North Lancashire in the Morecambe Bay area.
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Valentine's Day
Valentine's Day, also called Saint Valentine's Day or the Feast of Saint Valentine, is celebrated annually on February 14.
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Vehicle Excise Duty
Vehicle Excise Duty (VED; also known as "vehicle tax", "car tax", and "road tax", and formerly as a "tax disc") is an annual tax levied as an excise duty, and which must be paid for most types of powered vehicles which are to be used or parked on public roads in the United Kingdom.
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Whiteknights Yorkshire Blood Bikes
Whiteknights Yorkshire Blood Bikes is a blood bike charity which operates in Yorkshire, England. Blood bike and Whiteknights Yorkshire Blood Bikes are blood bikes.
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X-ray
X-rays (or rarely, X-radiation) are a form of high-energy electromagnetic radiation.
1962 in the United Kingdom
Events from the year 1962 in the United Kingdom.
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1969 in the United Kingdom
Events from the year 1969 in the United Kingdom.
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1978 in the United Kingdom
Events from the year 1978 in the United Kingdom.
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2008 in the United Kingdom
Events from the year 2008 in the United Kingdom.
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2010 in the United Kingdom
Events from the year 2010 in the United Kingdom.
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2012 in the United Kingdom
Events from the year 2012 in the United Kingdom.
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2015 in the United Kingdom
Events from the year 2015 in the United Kingdom.
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2016 in the United Kingdom
Events from the year 2016 in the United Kingdom.
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2017 in the United Kingdom
Events from the year 2017 in the United Kingdom.
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2018 in the United Kingdom
Events from the year 2018 in the United Kingdom.
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2019 in Australia
The following lists events that happened during 2019 in Australia.
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2019 in the United Kingdom
Events from the year 2019 in the United Kingdom.
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2020 in the United Kingdom
Events from the year 2020 in the United Kingdom.
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2021 in the United Kingdom
Events from the year 2021 in the United Kingdom.
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See also
Blood bikes
- Blood Bikes Wales
- Blood bike
- Freewheelers EVS
- Greater Manchester Blood Bikes
- Nottinghamshire Blood Bikes
- Severn Freewheelers
- Whiteknights Yorkshire Blood Bikes
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_bike
Also known as Blood Bikes, Blood Bikes Scotland, Blood biker, Bloodbike, Bloodbikes, Bloodrun EVS, Cú Chulainn Blood Bikes, Devon Freewheelers, Dumfries & Galloway Blood Bikes, Life Savers Scotland, Midland Freewheelers, NERVs + NERVS, National Association of Blood Bikes, Nationwide Association of Blood Bikes, North East Rider Volunteers Scotland, North West Blood Bikes Lancashire & Lakes, Northumbria Blood Bikes, SCOTSERVS, Yeovil Freewheelers.
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