NHS England's digital arm, NHSX, has produced a set of digital playbooks covering different areas of healthcare and showing examples of how digital technology can transform these areas.
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.
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.
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 .
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.
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.
Berkshire West CCG has been revising the pathways for patients with Musculoskeletal conditions over the past several years, with the new approach recently having been introduced for people with knee problems, as the changes move forward.
People who have musculoskeletal conditions are being invited to take part in upcoming online events to help shape future NHS services.
The feedback sessions will be held on Tuesday 22 June 2021, 4pm-6pm and Thursday 24 June 2021, 10am-12pm.