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General Discussion => SAAS => Topic started by: straps on April 28, 2013, 10:17:02 PM

Title: St John Non-emergency transport (Victoria)
Post by: straps on April 28, 2013, 10:17:02 PM

A short YouTube for those that might be interested.
http://youtu.be/mfyshYWyu68 (http://youtu.be/mfyshYWyu68)

Cheers
Shane

Title: Re: St John Non-emergency transport (Victoria)
Post by: Scrubbed on May 03, 2013, 11:24:09 PM

Interestingly (and sadly) the Merc Sprinters they're using have been "requisitioned" from the volunteer divisions. Not sure how they can really justify that when some of the vollie vehicles around here are falling apart.

Title: Re: St John Non-emergency transport (Victoria)
Post by: kellyp on May 06, 2013, 01:11:33 PM

It is sad about the Vollies sprinters BUT in Victoria you might'nt be surprised to find that all 19 Sprinters have been built and paid for by AV. The Biatric units fittings alone cost $38000.00 (that not counting the installation and special seats requiered).

It's not what you know BUT who you know.......Jobs for boy's again.
(until someone can factually prove me wrong).
Kellyp

Title: Re: St John Non-emergency transport (Victoria)
Post by: Robert-Robert34 on May 06, 2013, 05:31:01 PM

It is good to see st johnnies being utilised for non emergency transport by AV freeing up the ICPS and Volunteer Crews to respond to Code 0,Code 1 and Code 2 cases

Title: Re: St John Non-emergency transport (Victoria)
Post by: Scrubbed on May 06, 2013, 11:15:43 PM

Quote from: kellyp on May 06, 2013, 01:11:33 PM

It is sad about the Vollies sprinters BUT in Victoria you might'nt be surprised to find that all 19 Sprinters have been built and paid for by AV. The Biatric units fittings alone cost $38000.00 (that not counting the installation and special seats requiered)

Could be wrong here, but I thought that the bariatric vehicles were existing ones that AV had already been contracting out to NPT?

Title: Re: St John Non-emergency transport (Victoria)
Post by: kellyp on May 25, 2013, 01:23:47 PM

Yes you are right in part Scrubbed.
The only difference is they are NEW ones fitted with Stryker units at $38,000 each unit (not counting installation). The old ones are up in the country still.
Just for a moment in time could be a problem for St Johns as all their ambulances have been fitted with Stryker stretchers, incompatible with Ferno 50 E stretchers and cannot be loaded into Helimed with the current Helimed configuration.

Regards

Kellyp