❓ Hon Adele Farina questions the lack of requirement for St John Ambulance to invest budget surpluses specifically into improving country ambulance services, and the absence of contractual provisions mandating the reinvestment of funds raised from country ambulance services back into those services. The answer defends St John Ambulance's broader role and the contract's focus on effective patient transport.
AnsweredQoN 4544Legislative Council
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Since 2010, St John
Ambulance has recorded significant budget surpluses, and I ask: (a) why is there no requirement for St John Ambulance to invest budget surpluses into improving country ambulance services; and (b) why is there no provision in the contract between the Government and St John Ambulance requiring St John Ambulance to spend all monies raised from delivering country ambulance services back into the country ambulance service?
Ambulance has recorded significant budget surpluses, and I ask: (a) why is there no requirement for St John Ambulance to invest budget surpluses into improving country ambulance services; and (b) why is there no provision in the contract between the Government and St John Ambulance requiring St John Ambulance to spend all monies raised from delivering country ambulance services back into the country ambulance service?
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Answered
22 November 2016
Responded by
Minister for Planning representing the Minister for Health
Response time
35 days
(a) St John Ambulance WA Ltd (SJA) income is derived from a number of services not just the provision of road based patient transport. SJA is a charitable, not-for-profit organisation that provides the community with life-saving first aid skills as well as delivering the State’s ambulance service. It also delivers Event Health Services, Medical Services, Patient Transfer Services, the Community First Responder System and the Youth Engagement Initiative.
(b) The objective of the contract is to ensure that the WA community has access to emergency and non-emergency road based patient transport that are effective; defined as a service that is safe, efficient, understood, and provides value-for-money.
(b) The objective of the contract is to ensure that the WA community has access to emergency and non-emergency road based patient transport that are effective; defined as a service that is safe, efficient, understood, and provides value-for-money.
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