At this meeting the Public Health team presented their summary of health and social conditions in our South Reading CCG area.

The South Reading Patient Voice will meet at the University Health Centre on NorthCourt Avenue at 6pm-7:30pm on Wednesday, 31st October. The agenda will include a commissioning update and presentation and discussion about the new smoking cessation service.

Members of the public are invited to meet GPs from the Reading area Clinical Commissioning Groups and patient representation groups.

Friday 19th October --- 12pm to 2pm

Waterhouse Chamber, Reading Town Hall, Blagrave Street

GPs from the South Reading NHS Clinical Commissioning Group and the North and West Reading NHS Clinical Commissioning Group will be present to explain changes to the NHS coming in next April. Representatives of the LINk are also involved. Representatives of patient engagement groups will be there too.

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South Reading Patient Voice members will also be on hand to hear your views, experiences and stories. You will find out how you can get involved in influencing your care in your local NHS.

Main business: Presentation of the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment (JSNA) for South Reading by Nnoaham Kelechi and Sarah Shildrick and discussion. The JSNA is a comprehensive medical and social survey of public health which can be used to direct the Health and Well-Being Strategy.

Some constitution changes, election of chair and officers, report on mental health courses in the community, discussion on Health and Well-Being Strategy

The logo that you see at the top left of this page was created here in South Reading to give an instant characterisation to our web pages. We hope to run a competition for a more appealing figurative logo in the near future but for the mean time SRPV is us.

The South Reading Patient Voice will meet on Wednesday, 26th September from 6pm to 7:30pm at the University Health Centre, Northcourt Avenue. There is a busy agenda, with the election of a chair, as Tom Lake's six-month term comes to an end, a talk on community mental health work in East Reading and a discussion with Dr Rosemary Croft, the South Reading Commissioning Group's representative on the Reading Borough Health and Well-Being Board, on the strategy and priorities which are suggested by the latest review of health and social care in South Reading, the Joint Strategic Needs Assessment.

If you are a patient at of the GP practices in the South Reading area you are welcome to attend. 
If this is your first attendance please contact Andrew Price either by email or by telephone on 0118 982 2836 (Mondays, Tuesdays or Thursdays) or 0118 921 3838 (Wednesdays and Fridays)

22 August 2012 

 

South Reading Patient Voice (SRPV) needs to hear from and represent as many South Reading residents as possible. A web site will be one of the ways of reaching many people. Two regular attendees of the SRPV monthly meeting, Tom Lake and Jake Roberts, have started work on a suitable web site. It will feature details of the organisation, a full archive of agendas, minutes and papers from the monthly meetings, a section on the practices and the South Reading NHS Commissioning Group. There will be ways for readers to send in information and comment and a section for debates.