The BOB (Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West) ICS (Integrated Care System) has published a draft engagement strategy. Comments are due by 18th May 2022. Please see the attached document. BOB ICS has created a microsite dealing with engagement .

South Reading Patient Voice will hold a HYBRID meeting at 6pm on Wednesday 18th May 2022. There will be an in-person meeting at Meeting Room 2, RISC, 35-39 London Street RG1 4PS. There will be online access via this link. The meeting ID is 821 323 67226. Please see attached agenda and map for access details and directions.

 South Reading Patient Voice will have an online meeting at 6pm on Wednesday 20th April 2022. Topics to be discussed include bringing South Reading Patient Voice and the North and West Patient Voice group closer: also news from the local NHS and Patient Participation Groups.

South Reading Patient Voice will meet at 6pm on Wednesday 20th April 2022. Karen Hampshire - vice-chair of the North and West Reading Patient Voice will report on the views of the members of that group to forming a unified Reading Patient Voice There will also be news from local NHS trusts and local Patient Partiicipation Groups.

According to the Guardian newspaper, South Central Ambulance Service declared a critical incident in the early hours of Wednesday, 6th April after "extreme pressures" forced it to prioritise patients with life-threatening illnesses. According to the paper, this followed a huge volume of callouts on Tuesday and increased challenges in releasing some ambulances from busy acute hospitals. The ambulance trust has asked people only to call 999 in a life-threatening or serious emergency. Advice and help are available by calling 111 or your GP surgery, or visitng your community pharmacist.