As part of a national scheme, VANS are working with Sirona care & health to build a network of volunteers who will deliver pulse oximeters to patients at home across Bristol, North Somerset and South Gloucestershire.
Patients are referred by their GP and use the pulse oximeter to monitor their blood oxygen levels over a 2 week period with the aim of detecting early deterioration and hopefully avoid a hospital or ITU admission due to Covid.
Volunteer receives the call, picks up a small pulse oximeter device and delivers it to the patient’s home - no patient contact required.
Delivery is time critical with the volunteer needing to deliver the device within 12 hours.
We’re running a rota 7 days a week from 8am-8pm and volunteers sign up in 3 hour slots:
8am – 11am / 11am-2pm / 2pm-5pm / 5pm-8pm
The volunteer may not get a call in their slot but commit to being on standby.
Volunteers confirm at the time of call whether they can do the delivery.
Sirona will reimburse all reasonable expenses e.g. mileage costs/phone calls. DBS checks are required, Sirona will cover this cost if volunteers don’t already have one.
If you are able to help us, then get in touch with Bernie Micklewright as soon as possible by emailing her at: sironavolunteers@vansmail.org.uk and she'll call you back.
If you want more information about the programme, go to:
www.vansweb.org.uk/sirona-care-health