The Nationwide Association of Blood Bikes (NABB)
SSCBB are proud to be a part of the Nationwide Association of Blood Bikes, working together to provide the transportation of urgently needed medical items such as blood, biological samples and medical notes, demonstrating the continuous service to the NHS and the wider community. Not only have all blood bikers within the Nationwide Association of Blood Bikes contributed to saving the local hospitals a significant amount of money, they are also appreciated for continuously providing a high quality, professional service.
“We exist not for the income, but for a beneficial outcome”
The Nationwide Association of Blood Bikes is a registered charity (1139714) that represents a group of established charities operating across the UK and Ireland. With a history of over half a century, the concept of unpaid volunteers, with rapid response blood bikes has a remarkable track record.
The Nationwide Association of Blood Bikes provides a professional rapid response medical transport service to the NHS trust, free of charge.
Fundraising and donations enables us to provide voluntary services such as delivering blood samples, donor breast milk, medical equipment, platelets, patient notes and anything else which can be transported on one of our motorbikes.
Since its inception as an umbrella organisation in 2008, NABB has successfully promoted and been actively involved in the start up of numerous independent Blood Bike groups across the UK and the Republic of Ireland.
“Our vision of providing a ‘coast to coast’ Blood Bike service is rapidly becoming a reality”
The National Association of Blood Bikes’s (NABB) principle aims are to:
- Aid the formation of new groups
- Assist member groups achieve their objectives
- Define a minimum professional operating standard for all members
- Raise awareness / sponsorship for the benefit of all NABB members.
With the help of the blood bike community and all of our volunteers and supporters, in 2018, we were able to achieve the following:
What people say about us
“The blood bikes are vital to getting our life saving faecal transplants to critically ill patients with C. dificile infection”
Professor Peter Hawkey, FMT Service Lead, PHE Public Health Laboratory Birmingham
“On a regular basis we need to transport samples urgently, between Shrewsbury and Telford, and also from here in Shropshire to Birmingham and beyond. In the past it has been quite difficult, out of hours, to get those samples moving quickly, so it has made a huge difference to us to be able to rely on blood bikes to get those samples moving for us.”
Debbie Jones, Support Services Care Group Director Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust
“The voluntary service the blood bikes offer us has been instrumental in widening the scope of our FMT service across the country and ensuring costs are a low as possible for the NHS”
Dr Vicki McCune, FMT Service Manager PHE Public Health Laboratory Birmingham
“There is certainly times when the quicker we can get results back, the better the outcome for the patient, so blood bikes are helping to save lives and, at the same time, they are saving the NHS lots of money”
Debbie Jones, Support Services Care Group Director Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust
“We are so grateful to the volunteer riders who give up their time to courier blood products and urgent samples for testing between our hospitals and the regional NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) centre in Birmingham. Every minute counts when it comes to helping seriously-ill and injured patients and being able to call on the blood bikes round the clock helps us to provide safe, effective treatment and transfusions.”
Paula Gardener, Chief Nurse Burton Hospital Trust (covering Burton, Lichfield and Tamworth)
“We very much appreciate all of their efforts and the support they give both SaTH and the wider NHS.”
Debbie Jones, Support Services Care Group Director Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust
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