The Bob Integrated Care Board meets in public at 10am on Tuesday 16th May in the Council Chamber of the Civic Offices, Bridge Street, Reading. To join the meeting remotely via Microsoft Teams please click here .

South Reading Patient Voice will meet at 6pm on Wednesday 21st June at 6pm in the Civic Offices on Bridge Street, when our speaker will be Sarah Webster, the Place director for Berkshire West within the BOB Integrated Care System. To join the meeting click on this link. The online meeting is delivered through Microsoft Teams. You should be able to click on the above link and then choose to participate in the meeting from your internet browser (make sure your browser is in a full-screen window or you may miss the all-important "Join Now" button!). We were asked for a brief for the meeting by Sarah Webster. We replied with a note asking her to explain what she could accomplish in her role and supporting it with a set of data on local GP practices - please see the attached files below for this data. The documents can also be read through this Google Drive link.

Reading's Health and Wellbeing Board meets at 2pm on Friday, 14th July 2023 in the Council Chamber of the Civic Offices on Bridge Street, Reading. Papers are attached.

The BOB Integrated Care Board will meet in public at 10.00 - 13.00 on Tuesday, 18th July 2023. The meeting will be at the Oxford Suite, Kassam Stadium, Grenoble Road, Oxford, OX4 4XP. To join online via Microsoft Teams please register here

South Reading Patient Voice will meet in room 3 at RISC, 35-39 London Street, RG1 4PS at 3pm on Wednesday 19th July 2023. Please see the attached agenda for directions. We wiill discuss local news and examine the proposed new group constitution in detail. (Please see attached files.) Click here to join the meeting 

Healthwatch Reading is consulting on its future work plan and is keen for you to have your say. Healthwatch Reading is the statutory local arm of Healthwatch England and is Reading resident's champion on matters relating to GPs, hospitals, dentists, pharmacies, care homes and other support services. To give your views please click here . The survey closes on 30th April 2023.

Our BOB Integrated Care System is consulting on its Joint Forward Plan. Please see this web page . The Joint Forward Plan, developed by the Integrated Care System in conjunction with its NHS provider trusts, in consultation with other partners, responds to the recent Integrated Care Strategy produced by our Integrated Care Partnership, which brings together the local NHS with voluntary and charitable organisations and local authorities. The deadline for comment is 8th May - which seems ill-chosen.

Health Service Journal reported on 19th April 2023 that the chair of the BOB (Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West) Integrated Care System, Javid Khan, formerly CEO of the charity Barnado's, had been placed on extended leave, amid broad concern about his working methods from ICS and other NHS staff. Trust chiefs from the area had planned to complain to NHS England about the lack of engagement by Mr Khan; Six senior executive posts and the CEO position are occupied by interim appointments as staff have left over the past year. BOB ICB staff had the lowest proportion of staff of any ICB who would recommend it as a place to work in the 2022 NHS survey, Health Service Journal reported. While we have had no particular problems with Mr Khan's chairing of meetings, we have observed very slow progress and some unsatisfactory proposals on the division of responsibilities between the ICS central staff and the 3 constituent places. We were also very disappointed that the patient engagement strategy has been so slow in development and there is so little initiative in that area. Vice Chair Sim Scavazza will be standing in as chair for the time being, it is reported.

South Reading Patient Voice meets at 6pm on Wednesday 19th April online via Microsoft Teams and in person in Committee Room 1 at the Reading Civic Offices at Bridge Street. Our speaker will be Mark Hinchcliffe, Strategic Head of Quality Improvement for Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, the mental health and community care NHS trust for Berkshire. We will discuss local news from provider trusts, primary care patient participation groups and local initiatives. We will also consider a proposal for rearranging the typical schedule of meetings. To join the meeting please click here .

South Reading Patient Voice meets at 6pm on Wednesday 19th April online via Microsoft Teams and in person in Committee Room 1 at the Reading Civic Offices at Bridge Street. Our speaker will be Mark Hinchcliffe, Strategic Head of Quality Improvement for Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, the mental health and community care NHS trust for Berkshire. We will discuss local news from provider trusts, primary care patient participation groups and local initiatives. We will also consider a proposal for rearranging the typical schedule of meetings. To join the meeting please click here .