Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust - provider of metnal health services, communiity nursing servces and other community services in Berkshire - holds its AGM on Wednesday, 24th September at 2pm (refreshments from 1.30pm) at Easthampstead Baptist Church, South Hill Road, Bracknell, RG12 7NS. This is a members' meeeting. It is straightforward to join using the online application form.

A People's March for the NHS is making its way from Jarrow to London following the route of the Jarrow Crusade of 1936. It's last leg on Saturday, 6th of September takes it from Edmonton to Trafalgar Square, arriving around 3:30 pm for a final rally.

We will be meeting between 6pm and 7:30pm on Wednesday, 24th September 2014 at 6pm in the lower meeting room behind Wycliffe Baptist Church, Cemetery Junction (see forthcoming Agenda for directions) . Our main item will be a talk and discussion led by Dr Elizabeth Johnston, retiring chair of the South Reading CCG Governing Body, on the experiences and lessons from leading eight years of clinical commissioning for South Reading, up to the first years of operation of the South Reading Clinical Commissioning Group under the new NHS structure.

 We will be meeting between 6pm and 7:30pm on Wednesday, 24th September 2014 at 6pm in the Communicare Office behind Wycliffe Baptist Church, Cemetery Junction (see forthcoming Agenda for directions) .

Public Health departments of Berkshire local authorities are preparing a Suicide Prevention Strategy for Berkshire West CCGs and Local Authorities. A report on suicide can be read on the Reading Healthwatch web site. After stakeholder consultation in July/August 2014, the strategy will be presented to CCGs for approval in August/September 2014, and to Health and Wellbeing Boards of local authorities in December 2014.