{"id":41376,"date":"2022-06-29T08:30:35","date_gmt":"2022-06-28T22:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/development.uwu.org.au\/staging\/?p=41376"},"modified":"2025-07-28T16:25:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T06:25:04","slug":"st-john-ambulance-ceo-departure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/development.uwu.org.au\/staging\/archive\/st-john-ambulance-ceo-departure\/","title":{"rendered":"WA ST JOHN AMBULANCE CEO DEPARTURE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Statement attributable to Fiona Scalon, National Ambulance Co-ordinator, United Workers Union:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe welcome the opportunity for ambulance services in WA to be put on the right track.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a crucial point in time for the WA Government to take decisive steps to ensure ambulance services are run for the benefit of the WA community.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Government has already taken the unprecedented step of inserting senior Department of Health and Police operatives into SJA headquarters. Now is a further opportunity to look at how ambulance operations can be supported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe recent parliamentary inquiry gives the WA Government the foundations to bring the service\u00a0in to government hands.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe move by the Government to take responsibility for operating ambulance services would mean the WA community is no longer at the whim of a private provider and its board, with the bottom line, sadly, as their primary priority.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not surprised the CEO has taken the decision to leave a service that has been run into the ground, on her watch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe CEO has been part of an ambulance service with systemic problems.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe WA Government needs to put the safety of the WA community as the first priority, which would be a welcome change for people in health emergencies and a welcome change for hard-working paramedics and ambulance staff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>ENDS <\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><strong>Media contact:<\/strong> 1300 898 633, media@unitedworkers.org.au<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Statement attributable to Fiona Scalon, National Ambulance Co-ordinator, United Workers Union: \u201cWe welcome the opportunity for ambulance services in WA to be put on the right track. \u201cThis is a crucial point in&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[202],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/development.uwu.org.au\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/development.uwu.org.au\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/development.uwu.org.au\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/development.uwu.org.au\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/development.uwu.org.au\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/development.uwu.org.au\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65437,"href":"https:\/\/development.uwu.org.au\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41376\/revisions\/65437"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/development.uwu.org.au\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/development.uwu.org.au\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/development.uwu.org.au\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}