South Reading Patient Voice will have its Xmas and New Year social on Wednesday, 19th December. Invitations have been sent by email to members - please reply with your requirements by Friday 14th December.
Berkshire West Primary Care Commissioning Committee Meets on Wednesday, 9th January at 57-59, Bath Road, Reading RG30 2BA. Please register here or phone 0118 982 2922 by noon on 8th Janiary to attend. Questions relating to the agenda should be submitted by email to bwccg.enquiries@nhs.net or by phone to 0118 892 2922.
Reading Health and Wellbeing Board meets on Friday, 18th January 2019 at 2pm in the Civic Officers, Bridge Street, Reading. Printed copies of the papers will not be provided (apart from the agenda) so please arrange your own printed or electronic copies.
South Reading Patient Voice will meet at 6pm on Wednesday, 31st January 2018 at 94, London Street RG1 4SJ (please use rear door through car park) to hear speakers from Reading Voluntary Action to hear about the influence of loneliness and isolation on health and discuss plans for improving these aspects of people's lives. The meeting is open to all patients living in the South Reading Clinical Commissioning Group area (most of Reading South of the River Thames) and others by invitation.
Chris Hopson, in a letter to the Health Secretary, said that the current winter pressures marked a watershed moment for the NHS and that the Government must accept that the service could no longer deliver what was required of it under current funding. He said that key decision on increased funding were needed by the 2018 budget in November at the latest. Read more here.