The Reading Health and Wellbeing Board meets at 2pm on Fri 17th March 2023 in the Council Chamber and online via Teams. Please click here to join the meeting.

The BOB (Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West) Integrated Care Board will meet in public, online and at Cherwell District Council Chamber, Bodicote House, White Post Road, Banbury OX15 4AA from 10.00 - 13.00 on Tuesday, 21st March 2023. The board is responsible for commissioning most NHS services within its area and for integrating them with the work of local authorities and voluntary and charitable bodies.

South Reading Patient Voice meets at 6pm on Wednesday 15th March 2023 in Room 4A, Reading Civic Offices, Bridge Street and online via Teams to hear a talk on "Implementing the Berkshire West Health and Wellbeing Strategy" by Reading's Partnerships Manager in Public Health, Dayna White and Amanda Nyeke, Reading's Manager of Wellbeing and Public Health.

The BOB Integrated Care Partnership meets in public on Wednesday 1st March at 2pm to 4pm online and at Oxfordshire County Council offices. Please find all details here. Please find the papers for the meeting below. They include the revised strategy document for the BOB Integrated Care System, which is to be approved (or otherwise) at this meeting.

The number of district nurses has declined alarmingly over the last twenty years. District nurses require a year's additional training after nurse qualification. According to the Royal College of Nursing and the Queens Nursing Institute in 2003, there were 12,620 district nurses in England. By 2013, the number had dropped to 6,656. In 2019, it was down to just 4,000 - a reduction of two thirds in 16 years. That left only one district nurse for every 14,000 people, despite the national policy direction of providing more treatment in peoples homes.