We will be meeting between 6pm and 7:30pm on Wednesday, 24th September 2014 at 6pm in the lower meeting room behind Wycliffe Baptist Church, Cemetery Junction (see forthcoming Agenda for directions) . Our main item will be a talk and discussion led by Dr Elizabeth Johnston, retiring chair of the South Reading CCG Governing Body, on the experiences and lessons from leading eight years of clinical commissioning for South Reading, up to the first years of operation of the South Reading Clinical Commissioning Group under the new NHS structure.

 We will be meeting between 6pm and 7:30pm on Wednesday, 24th September 2014 at 6pm in the Communicare Office behind Wycliffe Baptist Church, Cemetery Junction (see forthcoming Agenda for directions) .

Public Health departments of Berkshire local authorities are preparing a Suicide Prevention Strategy for Berkshire West CCGs and Local Authorities. A report on suicide can be read on the Reading Healthwatch web site. After stakeholder consultation in July/August 2014, the strategy will be presented to CCGs for approval in August/September 2014, and to Health and Wellbeing Boards of local authorities in December 2014.

At the SRPV meeting on 30th July 2014 members heard John Taylor, Acting Commercial Director of the Royal Berkshire Hospital, Foundation Trust describe how the Trust's new five-year plan differs from its plans a year ago. Slide 3 of the attached document shows that the plan agreed with the 4 Berkshire West CCGs proposes increases in A&E activity of 7% over 5 years (as opposed to 20-33% in last year's plan) and births at RBH would rise to 6000 a year by 2019 (as opposed to 8000 a year as proposed last year).

South Reading CCG's Governing Body will hold its next meeting on Wednesday 3rd September 2014 at 9.30am - 12.30am at the Museum of English Rural Life in Redlands Road, RG1 5EX. Please see the South Reading CCG website. The agenda and papers should be available at the South Reading CCG website a week before the meeting. There is a chance to put questions to the Governing Body about health care services in South Reading.