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St John WA has donated one of its decommissioned ambulances to Ambulance Wish Western Australia, a recently established charity that aims to provide meaningful and positive end-of-life experiences for terminally ill, immobile Western Australians. Coined the Wish Ambulance, the vehicle donated by St John WA supports fulfilling the last wish of terminally ill patients by providing…

St John WA establishes a new $12.5 million fund delivering community support to Western Australians to ensure Western Australians continue to have access to health care when they needed it most. The fund includes: An additional $12.5 million Preparedness Fund mirrors the community commitment to support the organisation in navigating ongoing pandemic uncertainty. Ms Fyfe…

St John WA has taken out the win for the fourth consecutive year in Lifeblood’s 2021 WA Emergency Services Blood Challenge. Competing against Western Australian Police and the Department of Fire and Emergency Services, St John WA rallied its troops to dig deep and donate. This year, more than 273 St John WA staff and…

St John WA is calling on the community to help put the glam into a decommissioned ambulance for this year’s PrideFEST, St John WA has put a call out to the people of Perth to determine the design for this year’s Glambulance. The people’s choice will see a decommissioned St John WA ambulance transformed with…

St John WA has reached a new milestone with its free in-school First Aid Focus program, having delivered the training to every student at Meadow Springs Primary School for the first time since the program’s inception. The occasion marks the first time St John WA has delivered First Aid Focus training to an entire school.…

The first time David Bignold ‘met’ Annette Wilson and Nicki Kelly, he was unconscious and not breathing. When David suffered a sudden cardiac arrest at a function in Perth earlier this year, the two women, who are volunteers for St John WA, were the first to assist. They were closely followed by a team of…

St John WA’s Karratha sub centre has grown with two full-time paramedics added to the local sub centre as part of a $10 million WA Government investment into Regional Country Ambulance under a new agreement with WA Country Health Service. The new paramedics mean for the first time, Karratha has around-the-clock paramedic coverage for emergency…

St John WA’s fundraising arm, St John Giving has received a $100,000 donation from the McCusker Foundation to deliver 32 new Virtual Reality (VR) headsets to support its youth First Aid Focus program. First Aid Focus is a free in-school program that allows WA students to learn basic first aid skills, ensuring they’re empowered to…

St John WA has outperformed other jurisdictions in key indicators included in the annual Council of Ambulance Authorities Patient Experience Survey released in September, and exceeded the national average for overall patient satisfaction. Overall satisfaction with St john WA remained at 97 per cent for the second consecutive year, while overall ratings in Australia’s biggest…

It was supposed to be a routine day at the Royal Show for St John WA Event Health Services volunteers Nick Andrews and Liv Comito, but a woman in labour and a baby who just couldn’t wait changed all of that. As tens of thousands of people descended on sideshow alley, Gosnells mum Cassida Richards…