Type Registered charity Location England | Registration no. 284455 | |
Founded July 11, 1981 (1981-07-11) Area served Bedfordshire, Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Dorset, Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Kent, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, London, Oxfordshire, South Wiltshire, Suffolk, Surrey & South London, Sussex, Revenue £105,178 (year ended 31 March 2011) | ||
Service by Emergency Rider Volunteers, or SERV, is a Blood Bikes charity based in England, whose volunteers provide a motorcycle courier service, free of charge to the National Health Service. SERV was established in 1981.
The charity's volunteers work outside normal office hours and use either their own or the charity's dedicated response motorcycles to transport items such as blood for transfusion, blood samples for pathological or microbiological analysis, drugs, patient notes, x-rays, scans, medical equipment, samples, vaccines and donated human breast milk.
SERV is one of a number of charities which provide a service across the UK. It is a founder member of the Nationwide Association of Blood Bikes (NABB), and works closely with other NABB members such as Freewheelers EVS (Bristol) and Severn Freewheelers when transport over longer distances is required.