Healtwatch Reading is promoting a webinar on Self-Neglect to be given by Suzy Braye, Prof Emerita of Social Work at Sussex University. The webinar takes place on Wed 8th February 2023 from 10am to 11am. To register please click here .

The Berkshire West, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire (BOB) Integrated Care Partnership (ICP) board meets in public from 12.30pm to 2pm on Friday, 27th January 2023 (immediately after the Berkshire West online strategy consultation meeting for BOB ICP . The in-person meeting will be at: Oxfordshire County Council, Council Chambers, County Hall, New Road, Oxford OX1 1ND. The meeting papers are attached below.

 This extract from the Covid-19 recovery report on the Reading view of the Berkshire Public Health Observatory shows how life expectancy varies with deprivation.

The BOB (Bucks, Oxon and Berks West) Integrated Care System has its strategy set by its Integrated Care Partnership which includes NHS, local authorities and voluntary, social enterprise and charitable organisations. The draft strategy is currently under consultation There will be an online public meeting for Berkshire West about the strategy at 11am on Friday 27th January 2023.

NHS England has published its 2023/24 priorities and operational planning guidance. On the key issues of employee retention it has little to offer: "Improve retention and staff attendance through a systematic focus on all elements of the NHS People Promise". And what does the NHS People Promise say? "We are recognised and appreciated whether a simple thank you for our day-to-day work, or formal recognition for our dedication, such as every decade of service to the NHS. We have a fair salary, competitive pension, and an attractive package of extended benefits, whatever our role.