SOUTH Central Ambulance Service is holding its annual meeting next week.

The meeting, at The Ark Conference Centre in Basingstoke on Wednesday, September 30 from 3.30pm-5.30pm, provides an opportunity for the public to hear about and express their views on the ambulance service’s plans for the future.

It will look back over the achievements of the Trust, including the fact that the ambulance sevice’s return of spontaneous circulation survival rates are the best in the country at 39 per cent, which demonstrates that people who have experienced a cardiac arrest are given the best chance of survival.

Other presentations will cover some of the challenges the service has faced over the past year, as well as providing a number of updates including clinical research and trials that the ambulance service is conducting and how the Trust is committed to training more members of the public to start cardiopulmonary resuscitation as soon as possible should they encounter a friend, colleague or stranger suffering a cardiac arrest, to increase the patient’s chances of survival.

South Central Ambulance Service chief executive Will Hancock said: “It’s a great opportunity to tell people about the fantastic work our staff do day in, day out, as well as share some of our exciting plans for the future.

“It is one of the ways we can involve local people so that they can let us know what they think we do well and where we could improve.”