Healthwatch Reading is consulting on its future work plan and is keen for you to have your say. Healthwatch Reading is the statutory local arm of Healthwatch England and is Reading resident's champion on matters relating to GPs, hospitals, dentists, pharmacies, care homes and other support services. To give your views please click here . The survey closes on 30th April 2023.

Our BOB Integrated Care System is consulting on its Joint Forward Plan. Please see this web page . The Joint Forward Plan, developed by the Integrated Care System in conjunction with its NHS provider trusts, in consultation with other partners, responds to the recent Integrated Care Strategy produced by our Integrated Care Partnership, which brings together the local NHS with voluntary and charitable organisations and local authorities.

Health Service Journal reported on 19th April 2023 that the chair of the BOB (Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West) Integrated Care System, Javid Khan, formerly CEO of the charity Barnado's, had been placed on extended leave, amid broad concern about his working methods from ICS and other NHS staff. Trust chiefs from the area had planned to complain to NHS England about the lack of engagement by Mr Khan; Six senior executive posts and the CEO position are occupied by interim appointments as staff have left over the past year.

South Reading Patient Voice meets at 6pm on Wednesday 19th April online via Microsoft Teams and in person in Committee Room 1 at the Reading Civic Offices at Bridge Street. Our speaker will be Mark Hinchcliffe, Strategic Head of Quality Improvement for Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, the mental health and community care NHS trust for Berkshire. We will discuss local news from provider trusts, primary care patient participation groups and local initiatives. We will also consider a proposal for rearranging the typical schedule of meetings.

South Reading Patient Voice meets at 6pm on Wednesday 19th April online via Microsoft Teams and in person in Committee Room 1 at the Reading Civic Offices at Bridge Street. Our speaker will be Mark Hinchcliffe, Strategic Head of Quality Improvement for Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, the mental health and community care NHS trust for Berkshire. We will discuss local news from provider trusts, primary care patient participation groups and local initiatives. We will also consider a proposal for rearranging the typical schedule of meetings.