2005-06 Annual Report - St John Ambulance Western Australia

35 Pages·2007·1.55 MB·English

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Registered Office:
209 Great EasternHighway,Belmont,
WesternAustralia 6104.
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.stjohnambulance.com.au
THE COMMANDERY IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA
114th St John Annual Report
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The most venerable Order of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem. The four arms of the
St John Cross symbolise the four virtues: Justice / Fortitude / Prudence / Temperance
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114TH ST JOHN AMBULANCE ANNUAL REPORT
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Contents
Chairman’s Introduction 2
Organisational Structure 3
Ian Kaye-Eddie – A30 Year Journey with St John 4
Chief Executive Officer’sReport 6
Financial Position 8
Ambulance Service 10
The College of Pre-Hospital Care 16
Volunteer First Aid Services 20
Community Care 22
Capital Works Programme 24
Ceremonies & Heritage Functions 26
Honours & Awards 27
Roll of Members of the Order in Western Australia 28
Promotions,Admissions & Commendations 32
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Chairman’s Introduction
St John Ambulance has •The continued working together of the State
been serving the Western and Territory St John organisations at a national level.
Australian community
•The continuing development and working together of all
for 114 years.
of the Australian and New Zealand ambulance services
We are a community
through the Council of Ambulance Authorities.
based organisation with
our primary role being to •The opening of the Ian Kaye-Eddie Heritage Centre which
teach first aid and to joins the new State Office building with the refurbished
care for the sick and injured.Our primary services include training centre.
ambulance and paramedic care,first aid training,volunteer
Traditionally,our Annual Report has been the collection
first aid services and community care.
of a number of ‘branch’ annual reports.This year,to
During the year there have been a number of significant reflect the constitution changes,the Chief Executive Officer
achievements and developments for the organisation, will provide the report on all areas of the organisation.
including:
This will be the last time Ian Kaye-Eddie will report as
•The centralisation of all ambulance calls and Chief Executive Officer.Ihave therefore asked him to write
dispatching through the State Ambulance Operations something about his journey with St John Ambulance over
Centre at Belmont. the past three decades.This will be followed by the official
report on our activities for 2005/06.You will notice that the
•The opening of the new State Office,including the new
highlights throughout the report are written by Ian.
state of the art Ambulance Operations Centre at Belmont.
To the thousands of career and volunteer members who
•Opening of new ambulance centres at Victoria Park
enable us to provide high quality services for the Western
and Secret Harbour.
Australian community,I thank you all for contributing
•Opening of new workshops,radio and equipment to the success of this wonderful organisation.
servicing facilities in Belmont.
Gerard King
•The introduction of direct Government funding State Chairman
for Pensioner ambulance services.
•Solid support from Lotterywest.
•Asuccessful PrioryConference held in Perth
with the theme “Life Skills,Life Long Friends”.
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The St John Ambulance Council members include (clockwise from left) Dr John van der Post,Mr Tony Ahern,Mrs Merle Isbister,
Mr Shayne Leslie,Dr Richard Lugg,Mr Kevin Young,Mr Jack Barker,Mr Ian Kaye-Eddie,Mr Gerard King and Dr Harry Oxer.
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Organisational Structure
The governing body of St John Ambulance in Western In addition to the Council,St John Ambulance in Western
Australia is the St John Ambulance Council.The Council is Australia has a property trustee.This body is responsible
responsible for all major policy decisions affecting the for all real property of St John Ambulance in Western
Order of St John in Western Australia.The legal entity for Australia.Its legal entity is an incorporated association
this body is known as St John Ambulance Australia known as “St John Ambulance Association in Western
(Western Australia) Inc. Australia Inc”.
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Ian Kaye-Eddie
A 30 Year Journey with St John
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Chief Executive Officer’s Report
Introduction
The great strength of the St John Ambulance model in
Western Australia is the integration of all of the pre-hospital
services we provide.From training the community in first
aid,providing first aid services at major community events,
establishing and coordinating community first responder
systems and providing non urgent patient transport
services,through to the provision of emergency ambulance
and paramedic services and the State Ambulance
Tony Ahern (right) presents Ian Kaye-Eddie with a
Operations Centre,St John Ambulance provides
St John historybook on his retirement
to the community a comprehensive range of pre-hospital
Ambulance continues to provide a cost effective ambulance
care services.
service that ensures the Western Australian community has
access to an ambulance service which compares
favourablywith other services provided around the nation.
Although operating within a health system that is under
severe pressure,our performance indicators show that
we have been successful in providing Western Australians
with a high quality ambulance service.
First Aid is the building block on which most of the
organisation’s services are built and it is therefore very The 2005/06 financial year saw the completion of the
pleasing to report that we have taught first aid to more second year of our five year contract with the Department
than 82,000 people throughout the year and have provided of Health and we are progressing well with the introduction
over 50,000 hours of voluntary first aid services to the of the additional resources.The contract will allow
community.In our 84th year of providing the state’s significant growth in staff,ambulances and buildings,
ambulance services we have seen ambulance activity enabling us to manage the increasing demand for our
grow by4.4% and have introduced an additional services and to maintain a high quality ambulance service
31 First Responder Systems into the community.St John for Western Australians.
STATEWIDERESOURCESANDACTIVITIESFOR 2005/06
Ambulance
Ambulance Other Patients/ First Aid Patient
Personnel Cover
Vehicles Vehicles Customers Training Kilometres
Members
Ambulance Service
Metropolitan (career staff) 102 50 641 126,760 63,249 – 3,554,613
Metropolitan (volunteers) 4 – 147 2,056 1,125 – 112,242
Country sub centres (career staff) 40 13 75 19,738 10,740 14,219 734,393
Country sub centres (volunteers) 259 12 2,388 12,695 7,671 27,486 950,797
Subtotal 405 75 3,251 161,249 82,785 41,705 5,352,045
VFAS – 28 815 6,292 – – –
Community Care – – 95 738 – – –
Commandery Functions Committee – – 5 – – – –
Totals 405 103 4,166 168,279 82,785 41,705 5,352,045
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