Reading Community Learning Centre will be offering free courses on English language skills for healthcare users. The first course starts in May. Each course has six sessions of three hours. The courses are being given in Central Reading and at New Directions South in Whitley and at the Warehouse, Cumberland Road, in East Reading. The first session is at the Warehouse, Cumberland Road, on Friday, 3rd May 2013 from 9.30am to 12.30.pm Learners on the course will learn English language skills.

Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust has advertised for a community diabetologist. This is one of many steps that will reshape the NHS towards better care in the community over the coming years.

Reading's Health and Well-being Board meets for the first time on the afternoon of 21st June 2013. The Health and Well-being Board has oversight of all health and social care (both for adults and for children) for Reading although with limited powers of direct action. Members of the public are welcome to attend and may put questions, to be given in advance. If a detailed answer is expected, the question should be posed several weeks ahead of the meeting.

The NHS Has taken on its new shape as of 1st April 2013 as the Clinical Commissioning Groups take over most procurement of hospital and other secondary level health services. Under the new system South Reading CCG will be responsible for purchasing services for all South Reading patients from community nursing providers and hospitals.

South Reading Patient Voice will meet on Wednesday 24th April at 6pm at the University Health Centre.on Northcourt Avenue. The main presentation will be on Integrated Care and the services delivered in the community to support it. The work of the CCG Programme Boards will also be outlined. There will be a short report on developments in the CCG, on the "dry-run" CCG board meeting in March, and time for discussion of matters raised at the meeting (or preferrably before). There will be elections for vice-chair and outreach officer.