The Integrated Care Board for Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West meets in public on Tuesday, 16th January 2024 from 10am to 1pm at the Gateway Offices, Gatehouse Road, Aylesbury HP19 8FF. The board is responsible for most NHS health services and NHS collaboration with local authories and voluntary and charitable organisations across the whole of its area.
You can register to attend the meeting online at this link .
The Bob Integrated Care Partnership, the strategy board for the Integrated Care System for Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West, meets in public on Wednesday, 17th January, from 1pm to 3pm.
The meeting papers are attached below. To join the meeting click on this link .
Reading Patient Voice Group will meet at 6pm on Wednesday 17th January 2024 online and in Room 4A at the Civic Offices, Bridge Street to hear about "A Surgical Hub for the Royal Berks". We will hear from speakers Nicola Costin Davis, Director of Operations- Planned Care, Rebecca Cullen, Deputy director of strategy and Alison Foster, director for Building Berkshire Together. Please get in touch via info@rpvg.org.uk if attending in person, so that we can keep track of numbers.
Reading's Health and Wellbeing Board will meet on Friday 19th January in the Council Chamber at the Civic Offices on Bridge Street.
Attendance can be in person or online, details for remote attendance and meeting papers will be available nearer to the date.
Questions can be sent well in advance to nicky.simpson@reading.gov.uk
BOB Integrated Care Board is running a consultation on Primary Care, which runs until 29th February 2024. Reading Patient Voice Group with North and West Reading Patient Voice will host an online meeting as part of the consultation - details to be announced. Please see the BOB engagement website, register and sign in and visit the consultation home page .
Healthwatch Reading, with its fellow branches in Wokingham and West Berkshire is conducting a study of access to GP practices. There will be a number of focus group meetings - according to which practice you attend:
Thursday 16th Nov 10am - 11,39am Weller Centre, 110 Amersham Road, Reading RG4 5NA
Join the discussion if you attend these doctors' surgeries: Balmore Park or Emmer Green
Tuesday, 28th Nov 10am - 11.30am RISC 35-39 London Street RG1 4PS
Join the discussion if you attend Reading-Walk-In, University Medical Group or Abbey Medical
The Reading VCS (Voluntary, Charitable and Social Exterpise) Assembly will meet from 10.00 - 12.30 on THursday, 12th October 2023 to discuss interaction with local institutions such as NHS, Borough Council, and local intiiatives.
Tickets, free, may be obtained from EVenbrite .
Under the Lansley "reforms" in 2013, NHS commissioners were allowed and encouraged to award contracts for the provision of certain services to "any qualified provider". Audiology, the assessment of hearing and the provision of hearing aids, was one of those services and Specsavers was the provider most prominently known for providing that service.
We understand that this arrangement has been brought to an end locally on medical grounds. Commissioners have
The Covid-19 and flu Autumn booster campaign will start on 11th September with vaccinations in care homes and through local bookings. The national NHS booking site will bcome available on 18th September.
It is recommended that the flu and Covid-19 vaccinations be given together, though this is not mandatory.
Those eligible for the Covid-19 booster are:
The BOB Integrated Care Board will meet in public from 10am to 13.00 in the Gateway offices of Bucks Council in Aylesbury and online via Teams.
To receive the Teams meeting link please register at this page.
Questions may be put up to 9am on the Monday before the meeting by email to bobicb.enquiries@nhs.net.
The collection of papers is attached below.