Two new Blood Bikes to serve the Countess of Chester Hospital and Hospice of the Good Shepherd

SSCBB, the Blood Bike charity run by volunteers serving the NHS within Cheshire, Shropshire and Staffordshire, has recently received two generous donations.

The donations will be used to replace the ageing bikes which help to collect blood, blood platelets and samples for the Countess of Chester Hospital, along with sample collections for the Hospice of the Good Shepherd and breast milk from donors, for the Milk Bank, based at the Countess of Chester site. The Milk Bank supplies premature baby units at hospitals across the North West of England.

All the bikes within SSCBB have names, along with a story attached to them. The new bike based at the Countess of Chester hospital has been kindly paid for by the Cheshire Freemason Charity and will be called “The Cheshire Freemason”. The second bike based at Bromborough Ambulance Station has been kindly donated by ex Blood Bike rider Graham Weatherhead in memory of his late Husband Andrew Clarke, who very sadly passed away from cancer earlier on this year. The bike has been called “Clarkey”.

The Cheshire team also have access to other bikes based at Winsford and Knutsford to help serve the NHS in Cheshire.  SSCBB, along with other blood bike groups across the UK, provide an urgent 24-hour service which saves the NHS hundreds of thousands of pounds a year by not using couriers.

For more information go to:

https://ssbbgroup.org.uk/