The Nationwide Association of Blood Bikes represents a group of established, registered charities operating across the UK. Each charity performs a similar service, using motorcycles to provide an out-of-hours courier service to hospitals and other health institutions within their area. The charities carry urgently needed medical items such as blood, biological samples, medical notes, x-rays and scans. The service is offered free of charge to the NHS and all members are unpaid volunteers.
Blood bike groups operating nationwide include:
- Dorset Freewheelers - Dorset
- Freewheelers EVS - Bristol, Bath, Somerset, parts of Wiltshire
- Midland Freewheelers - West Midlands
- SERV - Essex, Sussex, Kent, Surrey, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Northamptonshire, Berkshire, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Hampshire
- Severn Freewheelers - Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire, parts of Wiltshire
- White Knights EVS - Yorkshire