St John New Zealand

About

All around New Zealand, 24 hours a day, and 365 days a year – St John members care for communities, help people in medical and accident emergencies, and relieve sickness and injury.

Please do not use this page to report medical emergencies - DIAL 111.

Mission

St John's mission is to prevent and relieve sickness and injury, and to act to enhance the health and well-being of all people throughout New Zealand.

St John owns and runs the emergency ambulance communications centres in Auckland and Christchurch and is in a joint venture in the third communications centre based in Wellington.

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St John owns and runs the emergency ambulance communications centres in Auckland and Christchurch and is in a joint venture in the third communications centre based in Wellington.

We have many more services than you might realise including:
• Caring Caller telephone friendship service to support isolated people
• First aid and emergency services at events
• First aid training
• First aid kits and supplies
• Friends of the Emergency Department volunteers providing comfort to patients in hospital emergency departments
• Health Shuttles to help people get to medical appointments
• St John medical alarms for people who live at home and may need urgent medical attention at any time
• St John Safe Kids programme, teaching children - from pre-schoolers to teenagers - how to respond to emergencies including using basic first aid
• St John Youth programme – where young New Zealanders from six to 18 years can learn first aid, healthcare, self-discipline and general life skills.



- Emergency and non-emergency ambulance services for approximately 85% of New Zealand's population.
- Emergency care and first aid at public events
- Friendship and support over the phone to the lonely and the housebound
- Transport for people to their health appointments
- First aid training and health-related products and services to the community.

St John also runs a youth programme where young New Zealanders from six to 18 years can learn first aid, health care, self-discipline and general life skills in their communities.

St John also organises the Friends of the Emergency Department. St John Friends of the Emergency Department are volunteers who give their time and their care so that people in distress can receive comfort at a time when they really need it - someone to talk to and a hand to hold. We have almost 800 Friends of the Emergency Department currently volunteering at 18 Hospitals throughout New Zealand.

For more information on any of these topics you can:
Phone toll free on: 0800 ST JOHN (0800 78 56 46) or
Email [email protected]