15 June 2013
Saturday 15th June 2013, and Michelle Keegan of Coronation St fame, joins North West Blood Bikes Lancs & Lakes at the Accrington Carnival, ably assisted onto our blood bike by Scott, Graham, Nigel, Carl, Andy, and many more. I believe the queue to help was right out of the park, I wonder why? The Mail Online has covered the event well.
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Today, Saturday 15th June 2013, saw our first relay run. Matt Wilson, our Secretary was being run off his feet (or should I say treads) with back to back runs between Westmoreland General and Lancaster Royal Infirmary, when a call came in to take urgent notes to the Neonatal Unit at Furness General.
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Our gallant hero Web Master, Greg Riley, did a 10 K run just for us and raised £120, well done Greg.
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Today 9th June 2013, Lee Townsend, (Duty Call Handler) received a call from RPH switchboard to collect a Very Urgent item from Manchester Royal Infirmary's Pharmacy to go to RPH. The item had to be collected within the hour and was in an ice box and had to be delivered with all haste. Graham Jones was dispatched and collected it from MRI. En route to RPH he encountered a serious
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If proof were needed that our charity is working, just look at the figures. It took a long time to get to 500 runs, then the 1,000 runs came very quickly afterwards. Now in a Bank Holiday weekend, not only did we reach the 1,000th run, we smashed right through it by an extra 49 runs.
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Well the morning started early with a call at 06:58 and the race was on to see who would get the 1000th run!! Only 5 calls required and we would hit the magic number and they came thick and fast! It was almost a scramble at the finish line but the Big Man (aka The Yeti) Scott Cassidy won it by a neck.
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Our longest run so far. Friday evening (24th May 2013), Lee, our duty controller, got an unusual call from Royal Preston Hospital asking us to take a very urgent package to Leeds St James University, Hospital. Mike Gough was duty rider and was dispatched.
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Basically Mother Nature had her evil way with us - the weather was pants to say the least! Having said that, Andy Griffith, Dougie French + 2 (wife and 7-yr old collection master....sorry, daughter), Andy & Deb Houghton manned, woman'd and child'd the stall all weekend raising money.
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Sunday 19th May 2013, our duty controller Mags, was put under pressure. First a call to NHBTS Speke to pick a box of blood up, nothing unusual there. But then came another and another and another, five in all, but we did it and the welcome to all riders at Southport was worth the effort, Cuddles all round. Then in the early hours of this morning another call to Speke, but this time taking blood samples there. Well done guys, this is what we are here for.
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Following a meeting today, we have agreed to run 19:00 hrs to 00:00 hrs every night as well as 24 hours at weekends. Trials over the last three weekends proved that their transport needs were very ad hoc, but they are now sharing information and requests for transport with the main switchboard, so it could get interesting. Watch this space!
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