We will be meeting between 6pm and 7:30pm on Wednesday, 26th March 2014 at the University Health Centre, 9, Northcourt Avenue, Reading RG2 7HE Our main item will be the proposal to review the SRPV's structure and activities - see attached paper.

Last year the Care Quality Commission's risk rating for the Royal Berkshire Hospital put the hospital in the highest band of risk. As a result an early inspection was scheduled which is due to start on the 24th March. In the meantime, the Care Quality Commission has published its most recent risk rating of the hospital - which has put it in the next to lowest risk band - 5 out of 6. The Care Quality Commission's risk rating system is called "Intelligent Monitoring". It's a good thing they told us that otherwise we might have thought differently.

The Patients Association, the patients' advocacy group founded by the late Claire Rayner, invites you to answer a questionnaire about NHS services online that you may have used. If you have used websites such as choose and book or access to your online records please help the Patients' Association with their project. Please click here to take part. You can find out more about the Patients Association at their website.

The board of the South Reading NHS Clinical Commissioning Group meets in public at 9am-12:30pm on Wednesday, 19th March at the Museum of English Life on Redlands Road. The Agenda and Papers are available on the South Reading CCG website. If you would like to attend and if you have questions to submit, which should relate to the agenda, please email SouthReadingCCG@nhs.net to arrive by 12 noon on 18th March.

The NHS body which supervises healthcare trusts, Monitor, has closed its investigation into A&E waits at the Royal Berks. The investigation was opened last August after the Royal Berks A&E department had breached the target for 95% of attendees to be seen within 4-hours three times in 21 months. Investigators were satisfied with the Royal Berks' measures to improve the situation. These include an expansion providing eight new bays in the A&E department.