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 .

BOB Area Spring Covid-19 Vaccination Campaign 2023
The local NHS is offering a further vaccination to those most at risk of COVID-19 across Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West (BOB) from 17 April 2023. People who are eligible for a spring booster vaccination include: 

• people aged 75 and over (by 30 June 2023)
• those aged 5 and over with a weakened immune system
• residents of care homes for older adults

Care home vaccinations have started (3 April) buteligible people can book their spring vaccine from Wednesday 5 April, with appointments starting on Monday 17 April and finishing on Friday 30 June 2023. (the last date people can book an appointment is 29 June).. GP practices, pharmacies and local hospitals across BOB will be delivering the spring vaccination campaign. Some walk-in centres will also take part and these will be publicised when available. The spring vaccine will be offered to eligible people aroundsix months after their previous dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. Bookings can be made by using the NHS App or at nhs.uk/CovidVaccination or all 119 for free. The NHS will also write to all those who are eligible to remind them they can get the spring vaccine. In addition, the current evergreen offer of providing first and second COVID-19 vaccinations is still available for everyone aged 5 (on or before 31 August 2022) and above across BOB but this will end at the same time as the spring vaccinations, on 30 June 2023. People can book a first and second jab at a GP practice or pharmacy across BOB at nhs.uk/CovidVaccination .

 The three unitary local authorities of Berkshire West, Reading, Wokngham and West Berkshire have adopted a common strategy for Health and Wellbeing 2021-2030 but each willl implement it in their own way.. To read the common strategy please click here. To read Reading's Health and Wellbeing Implementation Plan for 2022-2025 please click here.