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St John WA Nurses and Paramedics contracted to Rio Tinto
After a thorough tender process, Rio Tinto awarded St John WA the contract to provide nursing and paramedic staff to its Pilbara operations due to its high level of capability and expertise. The Industry Medical Services (IMS) team will assign over 60 full-time employees (FTEs) to Rio for the next…
Trapped in a chaser bin
Farm worker Jason Holmes found himself in a very tight situation when he ended up trapped in the bottom of a chaser bin on a farm in Cascades, about 100 kilometres northwest of Esperance, when the machinery he was operating faulted. The final complication was that no one knew he…
Saving Noah’s Life
St John Ambulance WA services Western Australia's 2.5 million square kilometres - the largest area in the world covered by a single ambulance service. We have 29 metropolitan depots and 144 regional locations. In 2015/16 we responded to more than 62,000 regional ambulance cases. Noah's story is an example of…
Epic chopper rescue
When St John Ambulance Critical Care Paramedic Ben Harris turned up to start his shift, little did he know that he would soon be involved in one of the most remote and challenging aeromedical retrievals since the Rescue Helicopter service commenced operations in 2003. At 2pm on 6 November, a…
New Primary Health Care
After 130 years experience in the delivery of humanitarian and ambulance services in Western Australia, St John Ambulance will now deliver a new primary health care service for the community. A key part of this service will be to offer patients another bulk-billed pathway to urgent care that is safe,…