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Recognition of the Selfless Contribution of Our People Recognition of the selfless contribution of our people YEARBOOK 2011 Contents Message from the Prior 1 Report of the Chairman 2 Report of the Chief Executive 3 Hospitaller’s Report 4 Priory Dean’s Report 5 Librarian’s Report 6 Registrar’s Report 7 Competition Results 8 Officers of the Organisation 9 Admissions and Promotions 10 Obituaries 11 Priory Votes of Thanks 11 Grand Prior’s Award 12 Service Medals and Bars 13 Roll of the Order 17 Front cover – Wellsford volunteer Andrew Graham (pictured with Margaret Graham) has contributed in many roles including Operations volunteer, Area Committee member and clinical education tutor. Inside front cover – Many St John members worked hard to support the community following the devastating Christchurch earthquake in February (photo courtesy of David Wethey). ST JohN YearbooK 2011 – | 1 > MESSAGE FROM THE PRIOR I am pleased to introduce the St John Yearbook for 2011 – a year of considerable challenge and achievement for the Order of St John in New Zealand. Greetings in the languages of the In late February, we visited St John As St John Prior and Governor- realm of New Zealand, in English, members working in Christchurch General, I thank all St John Māori, Cook Island Māori, Niuean following the devastating members for their outstanding and Tokelauan: Greetings, Kia ora, earthquake. We were able to work for the community. I also Kia orana, Fakalofa lahi atu, Taloha ni. witness the huge commitment of want to acknowledge their families, St John members and the selfless whose support often makes this This is the last time I will introduce contribution made by our people. contribution possible. the Yearbook as Prior. While serving in this role, since August 2006, This commitment takes place every No reira, tēnā koutou, tēnā koutou, my wife Susan and I have been day of the year right across New kia ora, kia kaha, tēnā koutou katoa. delighted to attend more than Zealand. In my time as Prior, I have 70 St John events. never ceased to admire the passion, His Excellency The Right dedication, skill and empathy of Honourable Sir Anand Satyanand These have provided different more than 16,000 St John members, GNZM QSO KStJ opportunities to meet and with nearly 80 % volunteering their congratulate a great many St John St John Prior and Governor-General time, providing high quality service members being presented with of New Zealand and care. St John honours and awards, or who may have given many years Sir Anand Satyanand presents the Grand Prior’s Award to of service to St John and their Northern Region’s Corey McCallum. communities. Members who have received honours and awards in the last year are acknowledged in this Yearbook. A particular highlight of my last five years as Prior has been to present more than 300 young St John members with the Grand Prior’s Award. This is an important milestone that recognises significant effort by our youngest members and the most recent recipients are named in this Yearbook. 2 > REPORT OF THE CHAIRMAN St John continues to respond to community needs and builds on community support. St John responds to new Central Region was created by Both Sir Anand and Lady Susan community need amalgamating the former Central have supported St John in many and Midland Regions. During the ways, taking special interest in The past year has been eventful for year we also merged the two South encouraging achievement among St John in New Zealand. Every day Island Regions to form one new our young people. I congratulate in every way St John people are out region, with one management team. and thank Sir Anand for so ably in the community helping people chairing meetings of Priory Chapter, in need. That is what we do. Organisational excellence our highest governing body. This year has seen a surfeit of The Priory Trust Board and Executive This year a number of Chapter tragedies with the heart-wrenching Leadership Group are continuing members and Priory Officers retired Canterbury earthquakes, the Pike to ensure that St John tries to do from service. I extend to them River mining tragedy and the Albany everything better. The approach to all my warmest thanks for their tornado challenging so many. organisational excellence is being valuable contributions. St John responded superbly to progressively woven into St John I also acknowledge the valuable the year’s tragedies. The ability culture and practices. contribution over the past three of our people to undertake their This year providing improved years of the outgoing office bearers roles and react with agility and governance training programmes for of St John Area Committees and resilience through severe crises is the Priory Trust Board and the three welcome the incoming members. truly commendable. It was stressful Regional Trust Boards will be part of The ongoing contribution that and difficult and I am enormously our organisational excellence effort. Area Committee members make, proud of the teams who provide Already we have improved our and the many voluntary hours they first aid and emergency care financial monitoring and reporting give, is much appreciated. to others in trauma situations activities and begun to introduce throughout the country. a balanced scorecard approach to management reporting. Community strength St John operates in communities Gratitude for support only because of the great support It’s my great pleasure to sincerely Garry Wilson we receive from our communities. thank our retiring Prior and Chancellor As Chancellor, I travel the country Governor-General of New Zealand, and I delight in the strength and His Excellency The Right Honourable breadth of St John support. The Sir Anand Satyanand and his wife strength of community support for Lady Susan for the tremendous St John throughout the country is support they have given St John unbelievable. during the past five years. Strengthening governance In St John we are constantly looking for improvement and that includes our organisational governance and structure. On 1 December 2010 the ST JohN YearbooK 2011 – | 3 > REPORT OF THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE St John plays an increasingly important role in health, satisfying the needs of the communities we serve, while helping to maximise impact from the health budget. A challenging year The financial year We expect new innovative approaches to service development A series of unplanned events Events that unfolded during the will see new projects introduced turned what was an already very year made it challenging from a with broad sector involvement that full year into the busiest year our financial perspective. can help to achieve improvements organisation has seen. We met Our revenue totalled $223 million, for the whole-of-health system. the challenges that we faced including government funding and are very proud of our team’s of $127 million for services, with Community engagement achievements. the balance coming from our New Zealanders are generous in This year we continued to refine commercial activities, fundraising, recognising and supporting St John. our strategy and our four strategic training and donations. Our staff and volunteers work hard goals. We are also developing our every day to gain and maintain the strategic intentions so our plans Ambulance integral to health respect of all New Zealanders. fit with Government, particularly Our position within the health the Better, Sooner, More Convenient Support from communities – sector is as the emergency arm of primary healthcare approach. encouraged by our partner ASB the sector. The ambulance delivery and all their staff – contributed model we have been using for Our people to fundraising income of $20.3 many years is now unsustainable million in the past year. We are very St John was recently recognised and the big challenge we need grateful for this support and our in the Reader’s Digest survey – to confront is how to meet engagement with the communities being voted most trusted iconic the increasing demand with of New Zealand is critical to our New Zealand brand and ambulance insufficient resources. Patient continuing success. officers were again included high numbers increased by over 24,000 on the list of the most trusted in the last year – 6.6%. professions. We are proud to We have begun work on a plan say that all of our people have for transforming the ambulance contributed to our work that is service delivery model. We have recognised in this way. also started developing the future To develop our capacity to face the shape of our non-emergency Jaimes Wood challenges ahead we continually aim patient transport services and this to provide appropriate leadership will be increasingly important as the Chief Executive across our organisation and to create health system seeks to provide more a culture of collaboration. services for patients closer to home. Encouraging fresh ideas and We are beginning to work with initiatives will continue to make the Government to ensure a more us a successful healthcare strategic and integrated view of organisation and create an our healthcare service offering, environment for our people to in contrast to the traditional and achieve success. simple transactional approaches to purchasing our ambulance services. 4 > HOSPITALLER’S REPORT 2010 was an exceptional year for the St John Eye Hospital Group. Staff saw 11% more patients and undertook 15% more operations than the previous year. This growth has continued at even with the United Nations Relief and Financial assistance from the higher levels in the first half of 2011. Works Agency they are exploring New Zealand Priory for the work This expansion of patient activity opportunities to work together on of the Eye Hospital continues to increases the demands for services a refugee camp-based screening play an important role in the care provided by the Eye Hospital.
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