News Articles for St John WA

WA's charities are turning to technology to increase operational efficiencies.

St John WA has started to cut its workforce as part of an organisational reset, with the final number of roles to be made redundant understood to be close to 100.

Medical burns specialist Fiona Wood has called for a serious boost in medtech funding, to stop a “runaway train” in the health sector, during a Business News event today.

Volunteers from a range of industries were named winners at this year's annual WA Volunteer of the Year Awards.

St John WA has opened a new building to accommodate touring volunteers – ‘voluntourists' – travelling to the Goldfields town of Laverton.

The ambulance operator has established new strategies to improve safety, wellbeing and innovation in WA's healthcare delivery.

St John WA has unveiled a new strategic plan and shared a decrease in workplace injuries for 2024 in its latest impact report.

St John WA will build a three-storey car park at its office site on Great Eastern Highway, with the project estimated to cost $7 million.

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The state government has committed $47.2 million towards a health centre offering multiple medical services in a bid to reduce emergency department visits.

Less than six months into his new gig as St John WA chief executive, Kevin Brown has made good on his plan to deliver a shakeup of the organisation's leadership team.

After years of infighting, state Liberal MPs have pinned their hopes on Libby Mettam to lead the party out of the wilderness and into government.

St John WA's executive team will be halved under a new group model that recently installed chief Kevin Brown has conceded ‘may feel disruptive' in the months ahead.

Major aged care, retirement and veterans organisation RAAFA has appointed former St John WA boss Michelle Fyfe chief executive as it embarks on a big development phase.

Emergency services have contained a blaze in Northbridge that engulfed Kakulas Brothers' wholesale warehouse earlier this afternoon.

It took less than 10 minutes on average for Perth ambulances to respond to emergencies in the year to June 2022, the second best performance in the country.

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The outgoing Perth Airport boss is reportedly taking up a new gig as chief executive officer of the St John ambulance service.

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St John WA has snapped up the Belmont property for $11.55 million, as part of its expansion plans.

Departing St John Ambulance boss Michelle Fyfe has posted a reflective message to all staff.

St John WA boss Michelle Fyfe will step aside after a “fulfilling but taxing” four years at the helm of the state's ambulance service amid mounting public scrutiny.

St John WA could take up to six weeks to respond to a report which recommended the state government bring ambulance services in-house if the non-profit could not improve operations within five years.

Fire, police and health officers have been dispatched to St John HQ over the death of a Perth grandmother.

The premier has apologised to the family of an 80-year-old woman, who died while waiting more than two hours for an ambulance.

Opposition figureheads have called for a greater focus on servicing debt and funding hospitals in the state's upcoming budget.

Conflagrating ambulance ramping with the Omicron surge seems like a search for political cover.

Emergency department waiting times are among the worst in the country, but elective surgery performance is on par, data released this week shows.

A $1.3 million Lotterywest grant to St John WA to install more than 1,000 public-access defibrillators has saved six lives since 2018.

Pierre Yang is facing calls to resign as chair of a parliamentary committee reviewing WA's ambulance services, following reports one of the state's largest unions supports renationalisation of those works.

WA's recent history of rolling back privatisations could yet inform the future of the state's ambulance services.

Three crew members with COVID-19-like symptoms on board a bulk carrier vessel from Singapore will be evacuated by health authorities when the ship berths at Fremantle Port today.

Perth-based Velrada has been selected as Microsoft's Australian growth partner of the year while Melbourne-based Engage Squared was the overall Australian partner of the year.

Machine learning could enable major advances in healthcare, expanding the power of the medical sector to spot problems early.

Premier Mark McGowan insists Western Australia's hospitals are ready for the state's hard borders coming down amid dire ambulance ramping figures.

Residents in WA's north will benefit from more ambulances and paramedics as part of the first phase of the state government's country ambulance strategy.

St John Ambulance WA's contract with the Department of Health has been extended until June 2022, using a new funding model.

In the midst of crucial contract negotiations with the state government, St John Ambulance WA chief executive Michelle Fyfe spoke to Business News about the group's diversification strategy, lessons learned from COVID-19, and her career.

The Royal Flying Doctor Service is increasing its capacity by 25 per cent in preparation for a potential increase in COVID-19 cases in the regions.

Andrew Forrest has run a nimble and remarkably successful campaign to procure medical equipment from China, while WA's healthcare community has rallied to prepare for the COVID-19 pandemic.