South Reading Patient Voice meetings on Wednesday 27th March at 6pm at the the University Health Centre. There will be an update on the CCG as it comes into full being on 1st April, a discussion on the next year's activities and elections for chair and other officers.

We will be meeting between 6pm and 7:30pm on Wednesday, 27th March 2013. There will be an update on the CCG as it is about to come into being, a discussion on the activities of the South Reading Patient Voice over the coming year and an election for char and officers.

A trial project to help primary school kids get active, control their weight and eat a healthy diet is being rolled out in Reading. The project "Let's Get Going" is for 7 to 12 year old children. It has run at Geoffrey Field school, at Whiltley Junior School and currently at Katesgrove Primary School. The project is run by NHS Berkshire Public Health with Berkshire Youth. It runs as an after-school club with 45 minutes of physical activity and 45 minutes of theory. Parents join in for the last 30 minutes of each session.
 
The course works towards the following goals:

The Government is to withdraw and redraft proposed regulations which appeared to require Clinical Commissioning Groups to put ALL service contracts out to tender. A storm of opposition from patients and medical profession in Parliament and outside has caused the Government to withdraw these regulations, which might otherwise have passed Parliamentary approval on the nod. They would have caused major expense, delay and loss of control by commissioning groups as every service contract would have had to have been openly advertised and tendered.

Royal Berkshire Hospital Consultant Carl Waldman has brought in a new technique to avoid the danger of a blood clot reaching the lungs in a patient recovering from an operation. 80 year old Doreen Carter of Wokinham, had a temporary "tiTanuim wire filter" inserted near her heart after a major operation as a less risky alternative to the administration of anti-clot drugs. Six UK hospitals will be trialling the new technique. To read the full BBC report click here .