Reading Rethink Carers Group provides help and support to carers of those with mental illness. All members are themselves carers, and can therefore offer help and understanding to those in a similar position.
There are local events for Carers week at Reading Civic Centre and at Prospect Park Hospital. There will be a Carers workshop and pampering fest at Reading Civic Centre on Wednesday, 12th June from 12 noon to 4pm. You can find out about your entitlements as a carer and enjoy chatting to other carers and those involved in care and caring. If you feel you need more help or encouragement as a carer and you can get along to this then this event is for you.
We all know that our physical surroundings have a big effect on how well we feel. Reading Borough Council is consulting on standards and problems of privately rented accommodation. Reading Borough Council has recently got new powers to regulate the conversion of single family houses into multiply occupied dwellings. They are proposing comprehensive planning standards for these conversions with regard to density of conversion, interior space, amenity space outside, light, height, noise, common rooms and many other details.
At a recent meeting of the South Reading Patient Voice, members heard from Berkshire Healthcare manager Fiona Slevin-Brown, how Health and Social Care are improving their coordination by working together in three regions of the South Reading CCG area. This is part of a major drive to upgrade community care and reduce the number of emergency hospital admissions. The entirety of the South Reading CCG is divided into three parts. The first is Tilehurst, between the rivers Thames and kennet and facing towards the West.