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 .

The Reading Covid-19 Outbreak Engagement Board meets at 2pm on Friday, 2nd July 2021. There will be reports on the state of the pandemic, surge testing and surge vaccination and lessons learned. For access please email : nicky.simpson@reading.gov.uk See attached file for agenda and minutes of previous meeting. To join the meeting click on: this link .

The Government has published a data strategy for the NHS and has opened it to consultation until 23rd July. Please find here the link to the draft strategy .

South Reading Patient Voice will be meeting in person at 3pm in Palmer Park on Wednesday, 16th June. Directions are included with the agenda attached.

South Reading Patient Voice will be meeting in person at 3pm in Palmer Park on Wednesday, 16th June. Directions are included with the agenda attached.

Reading Patient Voice Group will meet at 6pm on Wednesday 16th April in Committee Room 1 of the Reading Civic Offices on Bridge Street (entrance temporarily at rear).

We will have a talk and discussion from Mike Etkind, a Patient Participation Group leader in Buckinghamshire, who takes a keen interest in the organisation of the NHS. I hope this might be a good occasion to learn of some further things we might be doing.

We will also discuss local NHS services as usual.

To join the meeting please click on this link.

Please find agenda and minutes of last meeting also attached.

South Reading Patient Voice will be meeting in person at 3pm in Palmer Park on Wednesday, 16th June. Directions are included with the agenda attached.

The Penta Hotel in central Reading which is being used as a Government hotel quarantine facility has been the source of several cases of Covid-19 in the community as members of staff have caught the disease. Now Reading Council is asking the Department of Health and Social Care urgently to close the facility. Please click here for a more detailed account . Latest: 17 June 2021: The quarantine facility at the Penta Hotel in Reading will close on 30 June, according to the BBC. The hotel will then be deep cleaned and returned to its usual function.