In this paper the Health Foundation reports that healthy life expectancy has fallen in the UK by about 2 years during the decade from 2012-14 to 2022-24. It ended up just below 61 years of age. The BBC reported that the UK was one of only 5 countries out of the 21 richest where this occurred and the UK fall was the second steepest.

The Reading Health and Wellbeing Board will meet in public at 2pm on Thursday 16th July 2026.

More details to follow nearer the date.

The first meeting in public of the new Thames Valley Integrated Care Board will be at 11am - 1pm on Wednesday 22nd July 2026. Questions should be submitted to frimleyicb.public@nhs.net by midday on the preceding Friday. Please write to the same email address requesting a link to attend the meeting online.

As of 1st April our NHS care is commissioned by Thames Valley Integrated Care Board.

The Thames Valley ICB area covers the 3 counties of Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Berkshire - about 2.5 million people and the initial annual budget will be about £5.6B.

Reading's Health and Wellbeing Board will meet in public on Wednesday 18th March 2026 at 2pm at Weller Centre, 110 Amersham Road, Caversham Reading RG4 5NA (served by buses 27 and 29).

Please notify nicky.simpson@reading.gov.uk of your wish to attend.

The meeting on 10th February was cancelled.