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.

With the wide spread of the extra transmissible Delta variant of Covid-19 certain areas of Reading are asked to take part in "SURGE TESTING". Every resident in the postcode areas RG1 3**, RG1 5**, RG1 6**, RG1 7** is asked to attend one of several centres to take a PCR test for Covid-19 (if they have no symptoms) or order a test for home use (applicable whether or not one has symptoms). This should take place over 2 weeks starting from Monday 7th June. For details of how to do this please see this web page . At the same time Reading has introduced additional discretionary isolation support grants for those on low incomes who have to stay at home, cannot work from home and would thereby lose income. Also for buisinesses not covered by other existing schemes. For details, see the file attachment below. "

Berkshire West CCG Governing Body, together with the governing bodies of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire CCGs will meet in public (we believe) on Thursday, 10 June at 1.30pm. - 3.30 See this page for the meeting link. Although the 3 CCGs in the BOB Integrated Care System have not merged, they have a common Accountable Officer in Dr James Kent, and have agreed to hold their governing body meetings together.