By withdrawing its offer to sell land at 17, Craven Road the Royal Berks Hospital Trust has stopped a project to build a multi-practice, high-facility GP medical centre in south-east Reading.
On Tuesday 14th June from 2pm to 4pm at St Laurence's Church, Friar Street, the two Reading CCGs will be laying out changes planned for GP services and for services for older people and will answer your questions on these topics and on other major changes coming in the local NHS.
If you have observed or experienced harm from NHS medical treatment you have many ways of making sure that your experience doesn't go unrecorded. You can report a formal complaint, an informal complaint, or log your experience anonymously and quickly. Or you may wish to compliment the provider of your treatment.
There will be a chance for the public to sit in on the proceedings of the South Reading CCG Governing Body on 1st June 2016 when it meets at 9.30am - 12.30am at the Museum of English Rural Life on Craven Road.
South Reading CCG have appointed Wendy Bower as Lay Member of the Governing Body with responsibility for Patient Engagement. Wendy fulfills the same role for the North and West Reading CCG and has a background in nursing and nurse education. She lives locally in Wokingham.
South Reading Patient Voice meets again on Wednesday, 25th May at 6pm at Reading Community Learning Centre, 94, London Street, RG1 4SJ.
South Reading Patient Voice has written to the leader of the new COBWeB area (Commissioning for Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Western Berkshire) asking for patients and public to be involved in the five year planning which is due to be presented in June 2016 and finalised in July 2016.
NHS England has proposed a five year boost to spending on General Practice rising to £2.4 billion per year in 2020/21.
Berkshire Health Network is holding a couple of consultations on patient experience and opinion regarding Opthalmology (Eye Health) and End Of Life / Palliative Care. Please respond to these comsultations if you can. Start by clicking on one of the links below:
- Consultation on Opthalmology (Eye Health). This survey is open until 22 May 2016.
The state of Reading's health and wellbeing will be presented by Kim Wilkins of Reading Borough Council's Public Health team along with a look at how the state of our health is assessed and how it is used by our CCG in planning developments in health care.