South Reading CCG is supporting Jane Brooks - a PhD student working on Public and Patient Involvement by helping her get responses to her questionnaire for Long Term Condition sufferers and their carers. If you, or the person you care for, suffers from diabetes, stroke, TIA, heart disease or respiratory disease please fill in Jane's questionnaire. Start by clicking here. Please complete the questionnaire by 27th September 2013.

The South Reading NHS CCG summarises changes it is making to services and processes for Children and Young People here . There will be more Heath Visitors, the Family Nurse Partnership working with teenage mums, a single point of entry to CAMHS, expansion of the Talking Therapies programme and other changes. These changes are in response to points made at the Childrens' and Voluntary Youth Services AGM this summer.

The board of the NHS South Reading Clinical Commissioning Group meets in public at 12:30-4:00pm, Wednesday, 18th September 2013 at the Museum of English Rural Life, Redlands Road, Reading RG1 5EX. This is an occasion to hear about the quality and performance achievements and concerns of the health care commissioned by the CCG and to ask questions of the board. The agenda and papers will be available from 11 September at www.southreadingccg.nhs.uk.

If you have a health care complaint that has not led to a satisfactory outcome you can drop in on the Independent Complaint Advocacy Service from 11am - 1pm on Friday, 11th October. The Advocacy service is provided by SEAP Reading under contract from Reading Borough Council. Their next drop-in session is at 11am-1pm, Friday, 11th October at THE WAREHOUSE 1a Cumberland Road, Cemetary Junction, Reading, RG1 3LB This is close to the bus stops at Cemetery Junction used by routes 13, 14, 17 and 190.

The local area team of NHS England is directly responsible for our primary and dental care, for some screening services, for specialist health services and for some co-responsibility and supervision of the Clinical Commissioning Groups in our area that purchase our hospital and community nursing care. The local area team for the Thames Valley is based in Oxford. This Oxford-based organisation is organising a one-day event for charities and voluntary organisations to discuss and develop means of patient engagement.