Teenager uses St John first aid skills same week she learned them

Two cousins who are both emergency services workers are proving that blood is thicker than water when it comes to helping out a charity.

Thirty-three young people from around St John Northern Region were invited to Government House in Auckland to receive their St John Grand Prior certificates and badges.

National festival and competitions, Paihia, 24-28 April

As the crowd numbers increased at the Hamilton 400 V8 Supercars on Saturday so did the workload for St John personnel. St John had 132 patient contacts during the Hamilton 400 on Saturday.

St John is responding to a number of weather-related emergency incidents in the face of a severe weather warning in the North of the North Island, says St John Emergency Ambulance Communications Centre team manager Allan Rhodes.

Hamilton is currently in the final days of preparation for one of the biggest events the city has ever seen – the Hamilton 400 V8 Supercars. St John has spent almost a year preparing for the upcoming three day event.

National Influenza Strategy Group (NISG) media release

A St John volunteer was treating a patient when life-saving equipment was stolen from his ambulance.

Hamilton student Cheng (Kenneth) Yew owes his life to fellow classmates, teachers and a medical device known as a defibrillator after he had a cardiac arrest during his Physical Education class on Friday 15 February.