Reading Patient Voice Group will meet at 6pm on Wednesday 16th April in Committee Room 1 of the Reading Civic Offices on Bridge Street (entrance temporarily at rear).

We will have a talk and discussion from Mike Etkind, a Patient Participation Group leader in Buckinghamshire, who takes a keen interest in the organisation of the NHS. I hope this might be a good occasion to learn of some further things we might be doing.

We will also discuss local NHS services as usual.

South Reading Patient Voice will be meeting in person at 3pm in Palmer Park on Wednesday, 16th June. Directions are included with the agenda attached.

The Penta Hotel in central Reading which is being used as a Government hotel quarantine facility has been the source of several cases of Covid-19 in the community as members of staff have caught the disease. Now Reading Council is asking the Department of Health and Social Care urgently to close the facility. Please click here for a more detailed account .

With the wide spread of the extra transmissible Delta variant of Covid-19 certain areas of Reading are asked to take part in "SURGE TESTING". Every resident in the postcode areas RG1 3**, RG1 5**, RG1 6**, RG1 7** is asked to attend one of several centres to take a PCR test for Covid-19 (if they have no symptoms) or order a test for home use (applicable whether or not one has symptoms). This should take place over 2 weeks starting from Monday 7th June.

Berkshire West CCG Governing Body, together with the governing bodies of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire CCGs will meet in public (we believe) on Thursday, 10 June at 1.30pm. - 3.30 See this page for the meeting link. Although the 3 CCGs in the BOB Integrated Care System have not merged, they have a common Accountable Officer in Dr James Kent, and have agreed to hold their governing body meetings together.