St John (Qld) Competitors

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Ambulance Victoria (AV) is responsible for providing emergency medical transport, pre-hospital care and non-emergency stretcher and clinic transport services for around 5.2 million people throughout Victoria, an area of almost 227,600 square kilometres. The organisation is also responsible for providing air ambulance services throughout the state. AV is an integral component of the health care system and consequently a significant infrastructure is in place to enable a rapid emergency response and delivery of a high standard of pre-hospital care to the community. The objectives of AV are as follows: • to respond rapidly to requests for help in a medical emergency • to provide specialised medical skills to maintain life and to reduce injuries in emergency situations and while moving people requiring those skills • to provide specialised transport facilities to move people requiring emergency medical treatment • to provide services for which specialised medical or transport skills are necessary; and • to foster public education in first aid AV aims to improve the health of the community by providing emergency and health crisis services. In achieving this purpose, AV will seek to be known for: • excellence in paramedic services for health emergencies and crises • integrating with and connecting health emergency and crises services • effective first contact health emergency and crises solutions In a life-threatening emergency, please call Triple Zero (000). If it's not life-threatening and you do require care, you can access help through: Nurse on Call (24/7) - 1300 60 60 24 - https://www.health.vic.gov.au/primary-care/nurse-on-call Victorian Virtual Emergency Department - https://www.vved.org.au/ Priority Primary Care Centres - https://www.health.vic.gov.au/priority-primary-care-centres Better Health Channel - https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/ Your GP Pharmacists

We welcome new and regular visitors to our page and encourage you to learn about our incredible workforce and how we best deliver care for Queenslanders. Do not use this page to report an emergency or seek medical advice. In an emergency call Triple Zero (000). Call 13 HEALTH (13 43 25 84) for health advice. The following house rules apply to keep this page friendly for all. Comments and DMs that go against these rules won’t be tolerated and violations may cause the author to be blocked from our page. When contributing, do not post any material that contains: • hate speech • profanity, obscenity or vulgarity • comments that could be considered prejudicial, racist or inflammatory • offensive imagery • defamation to a person or people • name calling and/or personal attacks • spam comments from individuals or groups, such as the same comment posted repeatedly on one or more posts on a single profile • personal or private information about you or another individual (including identifying information, email addresses, phone numbers or private addresses and medical information) • false representation of another individual, organisation, government or entity • promotion of a product, business, company or organisation. Our full social media Hour Rules can be found here: www.ambulance.qld.gov.au/about/contact/social-media-house-rules Interested in more? Visit ambulance.qld.gov.au 📧 For general enquiries, visit ambulance.qld.gov.au/about/contact/general-enquiries ✍️ For compliments, complaints and other feedback, visit qld.gov.au/emergency/QAS/compliments-complaints-feedback 🚑 For recruitment and volunteering, visit ambulance.qld.gov.au/careers ⛑️ To book a first aid course, visit ambulance.qld.gov.au/firstaid ❤️ To register an AED with QAS, visit ambulance.qld.gov.au/our-services/aed-registration