St John New Zealand
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| Motto | Here for Life |
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| Formation | 30 April 1885 |
| Type | Charitable organisation |
| Headquarters | 2 Harrison Road, Ellerslie, Auckland |
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Chief Executive
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Peter Bradley |
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Staff
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8,955 volunteers and 2,475 paid staff |
| Website | www |
St John New Zealand (also often referred to as St John Ambulance of New Zealand) is a charitable organisation providing healthcare services to the New Zealand public. The organisation provides ambulance services throughout New Zealand, and also plays an increasing role in meeting the broader health needs of New Zealand communities through a number of health services and products.
St John services include emergency and non-emergency ambulance treatment and transport, event medical services, first aid training, the sale of first aid kits and supplies, programmes offering non-clinical support for patients and their family and friends, medical alarms, caring callers who phone to check on someone’s well-being and health shuttles to help people with impaired mobility attend essential appointments.
St John provides ambulance services for approximately 90% of New Zealand’s population. The only area where the organisation does not provide emergency ambulance services is the Greater Wellington region (specifically the areas of the Capital and Coast, Hutt Valley, and Wairarapa DHBs), where Wellington Free Ambulance is the provider. St John treated or transported 403,261 patients in the year ending 30 June 2012, attending more than 350,000 emergency incidents. The 610 ambulances or operational vehicles, based at 205 stations, covered more than 18 million kilometres in the same time.
The St John Ambulance Service comprises:
When a person dials 111 for an ambulance in New Zealand, the call goes to one of three Emergency Ambulance Control Centres (EACCs) located in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. St John owns and runs the Ambulance Communication Centres in Auckland and Christchurch. The Wellington Ambulance Control Centre is run in a joint venture with Wellington Free Ambulance. Dispatchers at the centres have medical knowledge and are trained to dispatch and coordinate all land, water and air ambulance services.
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