SERV (charity)
Service by Emergency Rider Volunteers, or SERV, is the name used by a number of blood bike charities based in England, whose volunteers provide a motorcycle courier service, free of charge, to the National Health Service and the air ambulance charities. The original SERV group was established in 1981.
Charities that use the SERV name operate across England: SERV Surrey & South London, SERV Sussex, SERV Kent, SERV Ox Bucks Berks and Northants, SERV Suffolk and Cambridge, SERV Norfolk, SERV Wessex, SERV Herts & Beds. Their 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.
The SERV groups work closely with other blood bike groups when transport over longer distances is required. Some of the SERV groups were founder members of the Nationwide Association of Blood Bikes.
