South Reading Clinical Commissioning Group has now advertised for two lay members to join its Governing Body, one position emphasising Governance and the other Public and Patient Involvement. These positions are permanent, remunerated and involve a commitment of at least two days per month. The advertisement in the Reading Chronicle of 10 January 2012 gives full details. Applications close on 24th January 2012.

The Government has announced grants for ring-fenced Public Health expenditure for 2013-14 and 2014-15. Reading gets 7.5M for 2013-14 and 8.2M for 2014-15. This equates to 47 per head for 2013-14 and 52 per head for 2014-15. The England average is 49 per head in 2013-14 and 51 per head in 2014-15.

You can follow the South Reading Clinical Commissioning Group on Twitter at @SReadingCCG.

The National Commissioning Board for the NHS has granted conditional authorisation to South Reading Clinical Commissioning Group. There are four conditions attached which are organisational in nature and should be satisfied in the next few months so that the South Reading CCG should be in good shape to take on the planning and purchasing of secondary services for the people of South Reading from April 2013. The other CCGs in the Berkshire West have also gained conditional approval, but South Reading has the least number of conditions attached. 
 

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