If you have observed or experienced harm from NHS medical treatment you have many ways of making sure that your experience doesn't go unrecorded. You can report a formal complaint, an informal complaint, or log your experience anonymously and quickly. Or you may wish to compliment the provider of your treatment. To log your experience of harm or risk anonymously and quickly click here for the National Patient Safety Agency Reporting Page.

Reading Stroke Support Group welcome new members from the Reading area. They offer a range of activities including speakers, social support, outings, meals and exercise. The group meets from 10.00 to 12.00 on the first and third Thursday of every month.

Berkshire Health Network is the main mechanism for the local NHS to communicate with public and patients about local public consultations, public meetings and announcements of major changes to the NHS. You can register with the Berkshire Health Network to receive notifications and log in to reply to consultations or amend your profile of interests and personal details.

There will be a chance for the public to sit in on the proceedings of the South Reading CCG Governing Body on 1st June 2016 when it meets at 9.30am - 12.30am at the Museum of English Rural Life on Craven Road. Agenda and papers are found on the website of the South Reading CCG. The proceedings cover the reports of the Chair and Chief Officer, which will contain an update on the major reorganisation under way at present under the title "Sustainability and Transformation Planning".

South Reading Patient Voice meets again on Wednesday, 25th May at 6pm at Reading Community Learning Centre, 94, London Street, RG1 4SJ. Three short talks by members of the group will provide insights into widely different areas of the health economy. Douglas Findlay will talk about the new Sustainability and Transformation Plan areas, Shaheen Kausar will talk about Health, Language and the work of the Reading Community Learning Centre, and Philip Lowry will talk about his experiences in early work with human growth hormone, and how it looked in retrospect.