Berkshire West CCG has engaged charity Together to operate a mental health crisis cafe, the Berkshire West "Breathing Space" in Reading. The service is open on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays, 5pm to 11pm at Ajilon House, 28 Friar Street, Reading RG1 1DT (next to Treatz). To access support - call Together on freephone 0800 0029091 or email breathing-space@together-uk.org . See the attached leaflets for more on this service and other crisis support.

Berkshire West and the other BOB CCGs meet in Common on Thursday 9th September at 1.30pm The meeting will be held online using Microsft Teams. To attend please click here .

South Reading Patient Voice will be meeting on Wednesday 15th September at 6pm. We will have Dr Andy Ciecierski on behalf of Berkshire West CCG to introduce and lead a discussion on "Same day primary care" - relating to the Walk-in primary care service.

The Primary Care Commissiong Committees of the the 3 CCGs making up the BOB Integrated Care System area meet in common at 10am on Thursday 16th September. Then meeting will take place online using Microsoft Teams. Please use this link to join the meeting .

Reading will mark Older People's Day on Friday 1st October. Stalls and activities will be in Broad Street Mall from 10am to 3pm.

Reading's Health and Wellbeing Board will meet on Friday 8th October at 2pm. Questions should be sent to nicky.simpson@reading.gov.uk 2 weeks before. To joint the meeting please click on this link . Please click here for the agenda and reports pack.

The Primary Care Commissioning Committee meets (in common with those for Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire) online at 11.30am on Tuesday 13th July 2021.

Reading's Health and Wellbeing board meets at 2pm on Friday, 16th July. To join online please email Nicky.Simpson@reading.gov.uk .

NHS England's digital arm, NHSX, has produced a set of digital playbooks covering different areas of healthcare and showing examples of how digital technology can transform these areas. Have a look for yourself

Tuesday 13th July will see the launch of an alliance of voluntary, faith and charitable groups hoping to influence the BOB Integrated Care System (Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West) which will achieve legal status through proposed legislation before April 2022. To register for this meeting please click on this link to the Eventbrite site .