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One of St John WA’s most valued team members, Margaret Cockman OAM CStJ, has passed away peacefully, aged 92.  Margaret was a long-time volunteer at the Wanneroo Division of Event Health Services, joining in 1968 and retiring from active service in 2003.  Her achievements were many with St John WA. Margaret was an active trainer…

St John WA has farewelled another extraordinary member of its family, with the passing of Hazel Goldacre OStJ, who was the first woman to reach the rank of Commissioner in Australia and was Western Australia’s next District Commissioner.   Originally trained in the UK as a Registered Nurse, Hazel emigrated to Australia in 1969 and was…

St John WA took out two of six categories at the 2023 Council of Ambulance Authorities Awards for Excellence, with a third initiative shortlisted. The initiatives were recognised for staff development and clinical practice, and won out against a strong field of about 50 initiatives from around Australasia – up from 34 last year when…

Morimoto’s journey with St John WA (SJWA) began by accident. Originally from Japan, with English as his second language, and aged 24 at the time, he mistakenly thought the voluntary Event Health Services (EHS) role he applied for was a hospital-based customer service role. Seven years later, Keita’s fortuitous application changed the course of his…

Geordie Torrese is a site medic at D&C Built, currently providing medical care to the construction workers on an ongoing 52-storey construction site at Elizabeth Quay. Geordie started with St John WA as a volunteer four years ago, then eventually transitioned to an event medic and is now with Industry Medical Services. “I became a…

Albemarle has funded almost $50,000 in state-of-the-art training equipment for St John WA’s Australind Sub Centre through St John Giving. Two new resuscitation training manikins, known as ‘Anne dolls’, specially fitted with advanced features such as airway devices and intravenous (IV) cannulas, will be used to train regional St John WA paramedics and volunteers in…

Ambulance Paramedic Brian McLuckie ASM has experienced the transformation of pre-hospital care over 40 years serving the Western Australian community with St John WA on the emergency ambulance front line. In marking his fourth decade, colleagues and friends paid tribute to Brian saying he had built a reputation not only as an exceptional clinician passionate…

Tomorrow is International Paramedics Day (IPD). IPD was launched on 8 July 2022  to honour Dominique-Jean Larrey, the man often referred to as the ‘father of modern-day ambulance services’. It’s a day to recognise the valuable contributions paramedics make to society, and to educate the public on the wide variety of roles they undertake to…