Projects
Patient Care
St John Patient Transport
Dumfries and Galloway members operate two schemes to help transport people living in their area to and from medical treatment.
A people carrier is used to transport patients with serious illnesses in comfort from the west of the region for hospital treatment in Dumfries or out of the region. The vehicle is owned by the Priory and driven by volunteers.
The second scheme, which has been running for nearly seven years, is operated by drivers using their own cars. Patients from the Stranraer and Newton Stewart areas are taken on Mondays to Dumfries to link up with special transport to Edinburgh where they receive chemo- or radio-therapy during the week.
A similar scheme has started in Angus and Dundee transporting people to Ninewells hospital in Dundee..
St John Palliative Care Project, Stranraer.
The two-bedded St John palliative care unit at Dalrymple Hospital, Stranraer has recently been upgraded as the hospital was rebuilt. In addition, there is a well-established 'Hospice at Home' project which provides increased nursing support for seriously ill patients in their own homes. Joint-funded by the local NHS Primary Care Trust, it operates throughout Wigtownshire.
Handicabs Lothian
A project which provides transport for disabled people and patients and has been supported by St John Scotland for over two years.