{"id":349525,"date":"2026-01-03T07:12:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T07:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/349525\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T07:12:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T07:12:15","slug":"south-west-charity-delivers-blood-when-every-minute-counts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/349525\/","title":{"rendered":"South West charity delivers blood &#8216;when every minute counts&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr Kate Lissett, chief medical officer, Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust, said:  &#8220;When every minute counts, South West Blood Bikes are there. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;They transport blood, samples, medicines, equipment and donor breast milk where they&#8217;re needed, and they deliver medicines to people at home, supporting earlier discharge from hospital and better bed availability for those who need hospital care.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We&#8217;re sincerely grateful to each volunteer for the difference they make and for the fantastic service South West Blood Bikes provides to the NHS both in Torbay and South Devon and across the county,&#8221; she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr Kate Lissett, chief medical officer, Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust, said: &#8220;When every minute counts,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-349525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=349525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}