Reading Borough Council in partnership with Solutions 4 Health offers its residents the FREE Eat 4 Health (E4H) weight management programme to support people to lose weight and more importantly keep it off, helping them to achieve their goals.
The popular, high-tech competition to encourage Reading residents to walk and cycle more is back in 2015
A free two-day 12-hour course on Mental Health First Aid is offered by Reading Community Learning Centre with support from Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, See the attached document for details.
Out Winter get-together for members and their guests has been moved to Tuesday, 10th February and will now take place at the RISC Cafe on London Street from 6.15pm.
We will be meeting between 6.15pm and 7:45pm on Wednesday, 25th February 2015 in the Reading Community Learning Centre, 94, London Street, RG1 4SJ (see Agenda for directions) .
There will be a talk and discussion led by Karen Grannum, South Reading NHS CCG Manager on the planning for healthcare for South Reading for 2015/16. as well as further news and discussion about health care locally.
The death rate for England and Wales has been about 3,700 above expected numbers since early December with 3,000 of the extra deaths among the over-75s according to the Office of National Statistics. Public Health England has suggested that flu could be the cause despite a successful flu vaccination campaign this winter. It will take more analysis to produce a definitive conclusion.
At a recent meeting of the Reading Health and Wellbeing Board we learned that expanded local treatment of lymphoedema was being considered.
The NHS has a screening programme for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA).
We will be meeting between 6.15pm and 7:45pm on Wednesday, 28th January 2015 in the Reading Community Learning Centre 10, Eaton Place, RG1 7LP (see Agenda for directions) .
The Care Quality Commission, quality regulator for the NHS, has placed Priory Avenue surgery, a Caversham practice part of the North and West NHS CCG, in special measures after judging it inadequate on a number of counts.