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Urgent Medical Couriers For Healthcare Providers

By April 2, 2020January 26th, 2021Member News & Updates

 

Currently, the world is undergoing a healthcare crisis. The transportation of medical equipment, samples and has never been more important, as the scientific and medical communities work tirelessly to fight the current outbreak of COVID-19, the coronavirus sweeping our planet. 

 

In today’s world, we are fortunate to have a greater access to healthcare and knowledge of medical science than ever before. Now more than ever, we are aware of the importance of being able to transport medical equipment, samples and treatments in carefully-calibrated conditions. Most couriers are unable to provide the dedicated, reliable service required to ensure the safe and vital transportation of medical goods. 

Speedy Freight is a specialist urgent medical courier trained, experienced and certified in the movement of medical, scientific and biological consignments. Offering same day and next day courier services for healthcare providers, Speedy Freight has a careful and airtight protocol in place for the urgent same day movement of lifesaving medical equipment. 

Why use a medical courier? 

 

Medical couriers undertake truly lifesaving work. The transportation of urgent medical equipment and items is a matter of life and death, which is why it is so essential to ensure your medical courier is properly trained where it is due and experienced in moving these most important of consignments. 

 

What services can an urgent medical courier provide? 

A qualified medical courier is able to undertake the consignments of a huge array of medical and scientific goods. These may include fragile medical and scientific testing equipment, potential medicines for testing, protective masks and garments (PPE), vital life saving treatments and biohazardous waste, amongst many other things. Speedy Freight is experienced in the field of urgent medical courier work, and can transport these essential items to their clients safely and quickly. A qualified medical courier for healthcare providers, like Speedy Freight, is also able to undertake the transportation of organs and blood donations, which render their services absolutely vital. 

Urgent medical couriers like Speedy Freight are able to move items for their healthcare clients in a matter of hours. The time-sensitive nature of these goods and deliveries means tight timekeeping is imperative and a reliable service is absolutely necessary. 

 

What qualities must an urgent medical courier have? 

Speed

In accordance with Good Distribution Practice (GDP), it’s important to ensure the speed and agility of the transportation of these goods. Urgent medical supplies cannot wait and often have an enormous, life-altering impact when they are delivered. That’s why, at Speedy Freight, we operate a dedicated medical courier service, meaning that we never service more than one consignment per journey. That means absolutely no unnecessary stops along the way whilst we focus on getting your consignment where it needs to be, when it needs to be. 

Reliability

At Speedy Freight, we know that urgent medical supplies require a courier with the utmost trust and reliability. We collate our testimonials on an independent platform, TrustPilot, to allow all our prospective clients to read testimonials from our current clients. We also keep all parties updated on the location of the consignments, and operate a status tracking option via our website. Our customer service team keeps clients updated on the progress of the journey so they can prepare or inform the necessary people of the arrival. With over 60 branches, Speedy Freight is on hand to be your local urgent medical courier, anywhere you need us. 

Experience 

It is imperative that your chosen urgent medical courier is experienced in providing this type of courier service. At Speedy Freight, our years of experience mean that we are the perfect urgent medical courier partner for healthcare providers, as we know to keep our vehicles in good condition to provide the ideal environment for the transportation of delicate medical goods. In addition, our access to a fleet of over 4,000 vehicles means that we can always choose the most appropriate vehicle for transporting your consignments, no matter the size or shape. 

In addition, Speedy Freight are experienced in transporting not only sensitive biological medical items, but also in the movement of bulk medical drugs and confidential patient documents to their intended recipient, including scans and medical notes.

If you would like to speak to a member of our team about Speedy Freight becoming your urgent medical courier one either a regular or a one-off basis, please do not hesitate to get in touch with us right away, and find out how we can help.