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St John Ambulance Supplies (often abbreviated to SJS) is a trading sub-division of St John Ambulance providing first aid and medical equipment and publications. Where a profit is made, surplus from sales are diverted into supporting the charitable work of the Order of St John and the St John Ophthalmic Hospital in Jerusalem.
The legal status of each organisation varies by country, province, state, county, territory and municipality. In both England and Wales the resident St John Ambulance organisations are simultaneously but separately registered as charities and companies, whereas St John Ambulance South Africa (for example) is a distinct entity registered as a "public benefit organisation".
From its beginnings, St John Ambulance in England has employed ranks and insignia to distinguish grades within its membership and management structure. Originally based upon the British Army officer and the British Army other ranks structure and insignia, the original ranks and insignia have been subject to several modifications over the history of the organisation.
St John Ambulance Cymru provides paid first aid cover at events, free to patients at the point of delivery. It uses trained volunteer first aiders as well as paramedics, doctors, nurses, and other registered healthcare professionals, aided by mobile treatment centres, ambulances and other medical provisions.
The Service Medal of the Order of St John is awarded to recognise both conspicuous and long service with the Venerable Order of St John, particularly in St John Ambulance, [2] both in the United Kingdom and in a number of other Commonwealth countries and Hong Kong.
Organisations such as St John Ambulance (SJA) have written and currently deliver their own internal qualifications for ambulance clinicians and choose not to utilise industry standard qualifications; their current ambulance qualification is named 'Emergency Ambulance Crew' (EAC) and takes around six weeks in the classroom full-time, in addition ...
The Museum of the Order of St John in Clerkenwell, London, tells the story of the Venerable Order of Saint John from its roots as a pan-European Order of Hospitaller Knights founded in Jerusalem during the Crusades, to its present commitment to providing first aid and care in the community through the St John Ambulance Brigade and running an Ophthalmic Hospital in Jerusalem.
In 1977/78 ambulance services in the UK cost about £138m. At that time about 90% of the work was transporting patients to and from hospitals. The Regional Ambulance Officers' Committee reported in 1979 that: There was considerable local variation in the quality of the service provided, particularly in relation to vehicles, staff and equipment.