South Reading Patient Voice meets at 6pm on Wednesday, 16th February to discuss matters relating to our local NHS.
Currently UK Health Security Agency publishes Covid-19 case counts for England by giving the number of first infections only. But with Omicron variant many people are being re-infected.
From 31st January 2022 the case count will count episodes of Covid-19 infection. A new episode starts with a Covid-19 positive test more than 90 days from the last positive Covid-19 test.
Click here for the formal announcement.
NHS ENgland has set priorities for 2022/3 in a planning guidance document issued on Christmas eve .
The 10 priorities are as follows:
NHS England has issued details of the changes to GP incentives to support the Covid-19 vaccination campaign. Some QOF incentive payments will be based on prior years performance. Other funds are diverted to the Covid-19 vaccination campaign provided all practices in a Primary Care network sign up to participate actively by 10th December. The changes persist until April 2022.
A panel convened by the organisation "Keep Orur NHS Public" has heard evidence on the Government's handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. Its report is published under the title "Misconduct in Public Office". Please see the document linked below.
The Governing bodies of BOB area CCGs meet in common at 9am on Tuesday 14th December 2021.
Further details to follow.
The CCG Commissioning committees of the BOB area meet on common on Thursday 16th December 20231 at 10-12am.
Reading's Health and Wellbeing board meets via MS Teams at 2pm on Friday 21st January 20222. Questions should be emailed to NIckySimpson@reading.gov.uk> a week before the meeting.
The Royal Berkshire Hospital NHS Foundation Trust which provides for acute care at the Royal Berkshire Hospital and sites at Townlands Henley, Thatcham, Bracknell Healthspace, is holding its annual general meeting at 5.30pm on Tuesday 12th October 2021.
The meeting will be online using Zoom. Please click this link
The passcode is given as T6auGj but you may not need to use it.