The Health and Social Care Secretary, Matt Hancock has decided that extensive reductions of facilities, including A&E departments at Charing Cross and Ealing hospitals, will be cancelled.
One of the imaging techniques used in treating cancers is Positron Emission Tomography (PET). The technique can be used to locate secondary cancers (metastases). It is often combined with CT which is an X-ray imaging technique. Some colorectal cancer patients from the Royal Berkshire Hospital are referred to the Churchill Hospital (part of the Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foudation Trust) in Oxford, a centre of excellence for cancer treatment.
The Institute and Faculty of Actuaries has produced its latest estimates of mortality and described recent changes in its estimates in this informative blog post . With the new understanding life expectancies for both males and females at age 65 have reduced by over a year since 2015.
The NHS Long-Term plan includes targets for increased screening and earlier cancer detection. According to an article in Pulse magazine, every patient will be covered by a Primary Care Network, whether or not their GP practice itself takes part.
The Berkshire West CCG Governing Body will meet in public at 9.30 - 12.30 on Tuesday, 12th March 2019, at 57-59, Bath Road, Reading RG30 2BA.
The Reading Health and Wellbeing Board meets at 2pm in the Council Chamber, Civic Offices, Bridge Street on Friday, 15th March.
South Reading Patient Voice meets at 6pm on Wednesday, 27th March 2019 at Reading Community Learning Centre to hear a talk on "The NHS App" by Mary Hannah Hudson of NHS England.
The Primary Care Commissioning Committee for Berkshire West (Newbury and District, Reading and Wokingham) will meet at 1pm on Wednesday, 10th April 2019 at the Oakwood Centre, Headley Road, Woodley, RG5 4JZ.
For full details please see the CCG web page on this meeting. It is necessary to
register by noon on the day before the meeting in order to attend. Please also consult that web page for details on submitting questions to the committee.
South Reading Patient Voice meets at 6pm on Wednesday, 27th February 2019 at 94, London Road RG1 4SJ. Victoria Parker, director of communications and public engagement for the Berkshire West integrated Care System will speak and answer questions. Please look through the attached presentation on development of primary care before the meeting.
Luton Council - which had been a partner in the Bedfordshire, Luton and Milton Keynes Integrated Care System (ICS) has pulled out, according to Health Service Journal, claiming that the ICS disempowered local decisions.