The Governing Body of the Berkshire West CCG meets in public from 9.30am to 12.30pm on Tuesday, 8th December 2020. Further details willl apear closer to the meeting.
This meeting has been cancelled. The Berkshire West Primary Care Commissioning Committee meets in public on Wednesday 13th January from 1pm to 3pm. More details to follow.
Pulse magazine has reported that GP practices will be able to opt in to offering self-administered Covid-19 swab testing for symptomatic patients, practice staff and members and their households. As we have a designated Covid-19 Hub for symptomatic patients in Reading this is not likely to be relevant to us, but could be valuable in more rural and remote areas.
Government has mandated local authorities to locate and communicate with those Covid confirmed people and their contacts that the national system has not been able to reach. As a result Reading Public health has assembled a team of contact tracers who will start work before the end of October. This was revealed incidentally in a discussion of Reading Borough Council's risk register, It is at 1 hour and 39 minutes into the meeting whose recording can be found here.
