Posts Tagged ‘Press Release’

On Thursday 12 March, more than 150 volunteers were celebrated at St John WA’s Metro Volunteer Awards night at Burswood on Swan.   The evening brought together volunteers across Event Health Services (EHS), Community Transport Services (CTS), Youth and Community Engagement (YCE) and the St John Academy to thank and celebrate them for their incredible service.   For EHS,…

Adult Migrant English Program students at South Metro TAFE paired language practise with life-saving skills through a free, tailored session delivered by St John WA’s Youth and Community Engagement First Aid Awareness team. The session blended ambulance familiarisation with hands‑on first aid, helping participants build confidence in emergencies. TAFE Lecturer Frankie Aldaiji wanted the session…

Uniforms tell only part of the story. This International Women’s Day, former St John paramedic and photographer Emma Rachelle (Emma Dodd) has captured a different perspective through a portrait series celebrating seven women connected to the St John community. The series features women working across emergency care and support roles and reflects the lives they…

St John WA is proud to announce six Council of Ambulance Authorities (CAA) Women in Ambulance award winners this International Women’s Day. The CAA Women in Ambulance Awards are designed to recognise and promote the hard work of incredible and inspirational women who work in ambulance services across Australia, New Zealand, and Papua New Guinea.…

The inaugural cohort of paramedicine students from Curtin School of Nursing has completed their first year of study. The Bachelor of Science (Paramedicine) course was launched by Curtin in 2025. Fifty students who enrolled last year are now on their way to careers as a paramedic. Increasingly, paramedics are serving in diverse healthcare settings, including…

A Perth teenager has been recognised by St John WA for his extraordinary actions that helped save the life of another boy in December last year. Dylan Bennet was just 17 and playing basketball with a group of other teens in Perth when one of the players collapsed. Recognising the signs of cardiac arrest immediately,…

Of all the capital state and territories’ ambulance services, St John WA has been found to have the best Triple Zero (000) call answering and critical response times across Perth and the whole state, according to the latest Report on Government Services (ROGS). Western Australia had the lowest median Priority 1 (P1) response time for…

Behind every St John WA operational uniform is a human being carrying the cumulative weight of difficult calls, long shifts and exposure to traumatic events. And sometimes, what that human being needs most, is permission to pause. When a major incident involving violence and aggression towards our crews took place in Kalgoorlie in early December,…

Celebrations are in order for St John WA’s Waroona sub centre after the local team won Community Group of the Year at the Shire’s Australia Day ceremony. Established in 1959, the sub centre is run by volunteers and provides the community with emergency medical assistance.  As well as providing first aid training to locals, the Waroona…

A new safety initiative that allows for the remote fit testing of St John WA’s workforce is now being rolled out in regional areas.  While St John’s Respiratory Team will still visit sub centres and regional offices on a year-round testing schedule, a new transportable set up will allow them to capture any team members who cannot attend in-person sessions.   Hailed as ‘convenient’ and ‘effective’ by volunteers, the team can…