Oh poor St John. :-D.... If they can't run an ambulance service how can they run a professional first aid service around the country...
My guess St John NATIONAL management will ask St John WA to get out of the ambulance business. This is what happened in SA in 1989 when St John (then running the ambulance service was brining St John nationally into disrepute)..
Check out the following link and go to the EXTENDED interview with WA St John management available to watch (4 corners had to cut this interview to fit into 60 minute time frame). WA St John CEO mentioned the previous enquiry into them was made commercial in confidence as they were worried about their event, industrial and first aid training "business" could have been harmed be the information contained within !!!!
http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2009/s2615353.htm
Can you believe a state the size and WEALTH of WA still runs a ambulance service that doesn't use professional CAD and structured call taking. Can you believe their career ambos can't give IV adrenaline to cardiac arrests or use rigid cervical collars. Can you believe their volunteers only have 9 days training! (gee in SA it takes 6 months to get your Cert II first responder (to be a junior member of a crew) and a further 12+ months to get cert IV ambulance officers),PTS crews sent to emergency jobs and they can handle or deal as a first responder at the job while awaiting paramedics help (in SA all PTS and ESS officers are trained to Cert IV level and equipped to provide good quality BLS while awaiting Paramedic/ICP help), and no country coordinator in their COMMCEN (we have 2 country coordinators and a Country Assist officer on duty here in SA 24 hours a day !)
Boredy is right SAAS is much higher level but he is right SAAS management should be worried because some of their "clinical governance and adverse incident reporting" does not meet standards of other SA health units...... But what do expect when your medical director is a GP !!!!???!!!
Gee their CEO and Medical Director looks shocked and panicked about the amount of information that had been "leaked" to 4 corners !!!!
My guess St John NATIONAL management will ask St John WA to get out of the ambulance business. This is what happened in SA in 1989 when St John (then running the ambulance service was brining St John nationally into disrepute)..
Check out the following link and go to the EXTENDED interview with WA St John management available to watch (4 corners had to cut this interview to fit into 60 minute time frame). WA St John CEO mentioned the previous enquiry into them was made commercial in confidence as they were worried about their event, industrial and first aid training "business" could have been harmed be the information contained within !!!!
http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/content/2009/s2615353.htm
Can you believe a state the size and WEALTH of WA still runs a ambulance service that doesn't use professional CAD and structured call taking. Can you believe their career ambos can't give IV adrenaline to cardiac arrests or use rigid cervical collars. Can you believe their volunteers only have 9 days training! (gee in SA it takes 6 months to get your Cert II first responder (to be a junior member of a crew) and a further 12+ months to get cert IV ambulance officers),PTS crews sent to emergency jobs and they can handle or deal as a first responder at the job while awaiting paramedics help (in SA all PTS and ESS officers are trained to Cert IV level and equipped to provide good quality BLS while awaiting Paramedic/ICP help), and no country coordinator in their COMMCEN (we have 2 country coordinators and a Country Assist officer on duty here in SA 24 hours a day !)
Boredy is right SAAS is much higher level but he is right SAAS management should be worried because some of their "clinical governance and adverse incident reporting" does not meet standards of other SA health units...... But what do expect when your medical director is a GP !!!!???!!!
Gee their CEO and Medical Director looks shocked and panicked about the amount of information that had been "leaked" to 4 corners !!!!