If you have a health care complaint that has not led to a satisfactory outcome you can drop in on the Independent Complaint Advocacy Service from 11am - 1pm on Friday, 11th October. The Advocacy service is provided by SEAP Reading under contract from Reading Borough Council. Their next drop-in session is at 11am-1pm, Friday, 11th October at THE WAREHOUSE 1a Cumberland Road, Cemetary Junction, Reading, RG1 3LB This is close to the bus stops at Cemetery Junction used by routes 13, 14, 17 and 190.

The local area team of NHS England is directly responsible for our primary and dental care, for some screening services, for specialist health services and for some co-responsibility and supervision of the Clinical Commissioning Groups in our area that purchase our hospital and community nursing care. The local area team for the Thames Valley is based in Oxford. This Oxford-based organisation is organising a one-day event for charities and voluntary organisations to discuss and develop means of patient engagement.

The West Berkshire Neurological Alliance has published its August Newsletter with much detail including the funding of two specialist nurse positions for epilepsy and for ME/CFS.

Reading Borough Council has published the Summer 2013 edition of its Social Care newsletter Care Junction.

South Reading CCG covering Reading from Tilehurst through Central Reading, Whitley, University and East Reading, is supporting World Breastfeeding Week from 1st to 7th August. There are events for pregnant women at the Whitley Sure Start Childrens' Centre - click here for details.