Reading is creating a recovery college for those recovering from or living with mental illness. You can find out about the recovery college at an event organised by Reading Voluntary Action on Monday, 24th October.

We understand that Tilehurst Medical Centre, a branch of the practice provided by Dr Kumar and partners with main surgery at Milman Road, is to close in the near future. Patients have been notified by letter.

"Integrating Health and Social Care in Reading" will be the topic when Kevin Johnson, Reading's Integration Manager for Care Services, addresses South Reading Patient Voice on Wednesday, 26th October at 6pm at 94, London Street, Reading RG1 4SJ. The group will also hear news from Patient Participation Groups, the CCG, Healthwatch and discuss local NHS services.

Simon Warren, Interim Managing Director of Reading Borough Council, speaking at the Audit and Governance Committee meeting on 29th September, declared that the Council was on the cusp of going to law with the NHS CCGs over the costs of continuing care for Reading residents. Councillor Eileen McElligot noted that the Council and the CCGs had been in dispute for years about these costs.

The BMA's Junior Doctors' Committee has called off strike action in its continuing opposition to the NHS Employers' new contract. We don't yet know what they will propose as actions against the NHS Providers' new contract.