We will be meeting between 6pm and 7:30pm on Wednesday, 26th March 2014 at the University Health Centre, 9, Northcourt Avenue, Reading RG2 7HE Our main item will be the proposal to review the SRPV's structure and activities - see attached paper.

We will be meeting between 6pm and 7:30pm on Wednesday, 26th March 2014 at the University Health Centre, 9, Northcourt Avenue, Reading RG2 7HE Our main item will be the proposal to review the SRPV's structure and activities - see attached paper.

We will be meeting between 6pm and 7:30pm on Wednesday, 26th March 2014 at the University Health Centre, 9, Northcourt Avenue, Reading RG2 7HE Our main item will be the proposal to review the SRPV's structure and activities - see attached paper.

Last year the Care Quality Commission's risk rating for the Royal Berkshire Hospital put the hospital in the highest band of risk. As a result an early inspection was scheduled which is due to start on the 24th March. In the meantime, the Care Quality Commission has published its most recent risk rating of the hospital - which has put it in the next to lowest risk band - 5 out of 6. The Care Quality Commission's risk rating system is called "Intelligent Monitoring". It's a good thing they told us that otherwise we might have thought differently.

The Patients Association, the patients' advocacy group founded by the late Claire Rayner, invites you to answer a questionnaire about NHS services online that you may have used. If you have used websites such as choose and book or access to your online records please help the Patients' Association with their project. Please click here to take part. You can find out more about the Patients Association at their website.

The board of the South Reading NHS Clinical Commissioning Group meets in public at 9am-12:30pm on Wednesday, 19th March at the Museum of English Life on Redlands Road. The Agenda and Papers are available on the South Reading CCG website. If you would like to attend and if you have questions to submit, which should relate to the agenda, please email SouthReadingCCG@nhs.net to arrive by 12 noon on 18th March. The matters to be discussed include: 

1. Chair's Report
2. Five year strategic plan
3. Two year operational Plan
4. Better Care Fund - Pooled social care and health funding
5. Quality and Performance Reports

This meeting starts at 9am so get your porridge on early!

The NHS body which supervises healthcare trusts, Monitor, has closed its investigation into A&E waits at the Royal Berks. The investigation was opened last August after the Royal Berks A&E department had breached the target for 95% of attendees to be seen within 4-hours three times in 21 months. Investigators were satisfied with the Royal Berks' measures to improve the situation. These include an expansion providing eight new bays in the A&E department. Paul Streat, regional director at Monitor, said: We have looked very closely at how this trust is being run and we have decided that its management is taking the necessary steps to improve its performance for patients." Not only are more people attending the Royal Berkshire Hospital's A&E department, but their problems are more serious ones. At the last hospital board meeting Dr Sue Edees, urgent care director, highlighted the fact that the percentage of patients being treated for major conditions in the emergency department has risen by 30 per cent to 65 per cent in the last 12 months.

The Care Quality Commission is asking for members of the public who have received treatment from the Royal Berks Hospital Foundation Trust over the past year to give their feedback as part of their inspection of the hospital trust. This includes the main Royal Berkshire Hospital site in Reading plus the Prince Charles Eye Unit, West Berkshire Community Hospital, Windsor Dialysis Unit and Royal Berkshire Bracknell Clinic (continues) 

1. Until 7th March you can complete the simple survey online at https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/KB67J6M
2. Attend the public listening event at the Victoria Hall, Town Hall, Blagrave Street, Reading, RG1 1QH at 6:30 pm on Monday, 24th March. Please register online at http://www.cqc.org.uk/public/listening-events#berkshire
3. Call the CQC customer services team on 030000 616161 to talk to someone about the inspection (open from 8:30am to 5pm).
4. Email the CQC in relation to the inspection at enquiries@cqc.org.uk
5. Write to the CQC at 
   
   CQC, National Customer Service Centre, Citygate, Gallowgate, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4PA 
   
    

We will be meeting between 6pm and 7:30pm on Wednesday, 26th February 2014 at the University Health Centre, 9, Northcourt Avenue, Reading RG2 7HE The main feature is expected to be a presentation on the PALS (Patient Advice and Liaison Service) at the Berkshire Healthcare Foundation Trust. There will also be an update on the Better Care Fund - the local NHS-funded social care programme - and on the CCG's progress with planning and public consultation. News from local practice Patient Groups will be welcome. All members welcome - to join please use the form on this web site or contact the South Reading CCG by phone on 0118 921 3840 and ask to be a member of the South Reading Patient Voice.

We will be meeting between 6pm and 7:30pm on Wednesday, 26th February 2014 at the University Health Centre, 9, Northcourt Avenue, Reading RG2 7HE The main feature is expected to be a presentation on the PALS (Patient Advice and Liaison Service) at the Berkshire Healthcare Foundation Trust. There will also be an update on the Better Care Fund - the local NHS-funded social care programme - and on the CCG's progress with planning and public consultation. News from local practice Patient Groups will be welcome. All members welcome - to join please use the form on this web site or contact the South Reading CCG by phone on 0118 921 3840 and ask to be a member of the South Reading Patient Voice.