Guernsey Ambulance and Rescue Service

[citation needed] The company operates as a business, but was (until July 2012) a subsidiary of the Priory of England and the Islands of the Venerable Order of St John.

[2] Thus both St John Ambulance (Guernsey) and the Guernsey Ambulance and Rescue Service (as sister organisations) remain under the umbrella of the Venerable Order of St John, but through independent local control, rather than the English Priory.

Emergency cover includes the provision of in-shore search and rescue boats, and a marine ambulance.

The service trains and supervises the small team of community first responders who provide the only emergency medical care on the island of Herm.

[5] The volunteers are trained to preserve life, including the use of oxygen, defibrillators, and other emergency equipment, during the typical 45-minute response time involved in getting professional paramedics to Herm from Guernsey.