FOLLOWING a generous donation earlier this year, Liphook Day Centre, located in Midhurst Road car park, has bought and mounted a Heart Start defibrillator outside its entrance for public use.

Managers and volunteers of the centre received a training demonstration by Ben Horne, general manager and Dan Brown, operations manager at The Edge leisure centre in Haslemere, who stressed the ease and simplicity with which the battery operated defibrillator can be used – even by someone who has never had any first aid training.

Access to the equipment is given by making a 999 call – the emergency services operator will issue a four-digit code to open the cabinet.

Pre-recorded directions will be heard as soon as the on/off button is pressed and the call will also generate an ambulance or first responder attendance.

Pictured with the new defibrillator mounted inside the cabinet are volunteer Annette Ellens, Anne Hall, and Liphook Day Centre manager Penny Leigh.