Almost 90 per cent of NT paramedics have no confidence in the private ambulance service's executive leadership and almost all have concerns about patient safety, a union survey has found.
Almost all St John NT union members told the survey they have no confidence in the service's leadership.A union survey of St John Ambulance NT paramedics has revealed 88 per cent have no confidence in the ambulance service's executive leadership.
Frontline workers at the Northern Territory's troubled private ambulance service are calling for a government overhaul of St John NT. " are telling St John NT that they need to start listening to them because they've got serious concerns about the clinical governance and the leadership," she told ABC Radio Darwin.
The NT and WA are the only two jurisdictions in Australia where ambulance services are not under government control.She shared an account from one survey respondent, a St John NT paramedic, who said the service's executive was "disconnected from the realities of day-to-day operations".
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