SJSA Annual Report 2023-24

Annual Report 2023/24

Training Services Chair’s Report When we ask, “why are we here?” and why St John is here, there are a multitude of reasons that spring to mind. When we ask the public what St John is here for it is a lot clearer, St John saves lives. The public sees St John saving lives in uniforms at events and by teaching first aid and resuscitation. We have the opportunity to save more lives by teaching how to do it than by actually doing the resuscitation at the time.

To be effective in its role of saving lives, our teaching delivery needs to be both correct and well taught. This year the Clinical Governance Committee (CGC) became a subcommittee of the Board and the governance of our public teaching as well as our in house teaching is clearly identified as a core business for the CGC. The future years will see a continued focus on quality and content of delivery as a means of saving lives. This year our 26 Commercial Trainers and 10 Volunteer Operations Trainers have delivered more than 2,600 courses and trained over 41,700 individuals, all of which could potentially have the opportunity to save a life. It does not take many lives saved because someone had the confidence and knowledge to attempt resuscitation to justify all the effort and hard work that goes into delivering training. This investment in life applies regardless of whether the life is saved by our uniformed volunteer or a member of the public we have trained. Teaching methods changed this year with the widespread implementation of SJx (St John Experience) delivery of first aid and Basic Life Support. The SJx program offers a modernised approach to training that incorporates immersive technology that employs a scenario-based approach. This provides consistent messaging in the training, while providing a more realistic and relevant training environment for participants.

Prof. Hugh Grantham Chair of Training The future

years will see a continued focus on quality and content of delivery as a means of saving lives.

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