Mr Luke March has been appointed as chair of the Western Berkshire Accountable Care System - a collaboration of the principal NHS organisations in Western Berkshire.
The British Medical Association (BMA), the doctors' trade union, has announced that doctors in training ("junior doctors" - who can be any grade below consultant and may be in their mid-thirties) will hold 5-day all-out strikes in October, November and December but the strike announced for
December has been called off.
The Government's plan for reducing childhood obesity was published on 18th August 2016 (see attached file).
South Reading CCG Governing Body meets in public and holds its annual meeting on Wednesday 7th September, 2016 at the Museum Of English Rural Life, Redlands Road, RG1 5EX.
Our local 111 urgent care and advice telephone service is being recommissioned. You can help shape the future service by taking part in a consultation meeting on 13th September from 9.00am to 1.00pm at the Holiday Inn, Basingstoke Road, Reading, RG2 0SL.
The NHS is now setting out its plans for the next five years when spending increases will be well below demand.
We will be discussing patient engagement in the NHS with the new lay member of the South Reading CCG Governing Body, Wendy Bower and Nikki Malin, in charge of comms support for Berkshire West CCGs. The meeting is from 6.00pm to 7.45 pm on Wednesday, 20th July 2016, at the Reading
Community Learning Centre, 94, London Street, RG1 4SJ.
The current reorganisation of the English NHS into "Sustainability and Transformation" areas was one of the topics at the Health and Wellbeing Board meeting held at short notice at Reading's Civic Offices on 14th June.
There will be a discussion about developments in primary care.
The set of questions posed as starters is:
Reading Borough Council's Health and Wellbeing Board - which has a remit to bring together the local health and social care economy - is holding an extra meeting at short notice at 6pm on Tuesday, 14th June 2016 in Committee Rooms 4A and 4B at the Civic Offices.