St John - Ashburton 2.58

St John provides emergency ambulance services to nearly 90% of New Zealanders and 97% of New Zealand’s geographical area (not Wairarapa and Wellington but we provide other services there).
We have more than 190 ambulance stations across the country - in the year ending June 2010 we treated and transported more than 370,000 patients and attended more than 305,000 emergency incident

We have over 8,000 volunteers, just over 2,300 paid staff (including casuals), and more than 5,700 members in our youth programmes (among the largest and fastest growing in the country).

St John is a charity and we rely on financial and volunteer support from the community to help fund the range of services we provide; to improve the health and well-being of all New Zealanders.

Contracts with the Ministry of Health, the Accident Compensation Corporation (ACC) and District Health Boards fund 70% of our ambulance service direct operating costs. The operating shortfall is made up from community donations, fundraising, revenue from our commercial activities (first aid kits, first aid training, medical alarms and defibrillators), as well as income from emergency ambulance part charges.