The Berkshire West, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire (BOB) Integrated Care Partnership (ICP) board meets in public from 12.30pm to 2pm on Friday, 27th January 2023 (immediately after the Berkshire West online strategy consultation meeting for BOB ICP .
The in-person meeting will be at: Oxfordshire County Council, Council Chambers, County Hall, New Road, Oxford OX1 1ND.
The meeting papers are attached below.
This extract from the Covid-19 recovery report on the Reading view of the Berkshire Public Health Observatory shows how life expectancy varies with deprivation.
The BOB (Bucks, Oxon and Berks West) Integrated Care System has its strategy set by its Integrated Care Partnership which includes NHS, local authorities and voluntary, social enterprise and charitable organisations. The draft strategy is currently under consultation
NHS England has published its 2023/24 priorities and operational planning guidance.
On the key issues of employee retention it has little to offer: "Improve retention and staff attendance through a systematic focus on all elements of the NHS People Promise".
And what does the NHS People Promise say?
"We are recognised and appreciated – whether a simple thank you for our day-to-day work, or formal recognition for our dedication, such as every decade of service to the NHS.
Reading again has an Urgent Care Centre, open from 8am to 8pm every day at the doctor's practice on the first floor of Broad Street Mall.
The Urgent Care Centre will see people with urgent conditions. It asserts that it does not treat injuries - perhaps because it has no X-ray facilties. Anyone with and injury or a life-threatening condition should attend the Royal Berkshire Hospital's Accident and Emergency Department.
The BOB Integrated Care Board will meet in public from 10am to 1pm on Tuesday, 17th January 2023 at a venue still to be specified. The meeting can be observed online by registering in advance via the link on this page .
Public questions can be submitted in advance to bobicb.enquiries@nhs.net .
Click on this link to attend the meeting.
Reading Health and Wellbeing Board meets at 2pm on Friday 20th January 2023.
You can attend the meeting online or in person. Please contact Nicky.Simpson@reading.gov.uk for remote attendance details or to submit questions.
Public questions should be submitted a couple of weeks before to allow for answers to be prepared.
Papers for the meeting will be available about 1 week beforehand.
The BOB integrated care system is run by its NHS Integrated Care Board but its strategy is set by a wider partnership - the BOB Integrated Care Partnership, bringing together the NHS, local authorities, voluntary and charitable organisations and others. The Integrated Care Partnership Board is now consulting on its strategic priorities for the Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West health and social care system.
There will be public meetings in January 2023 (to be specified) as part of the consultation.
The consultation ends on 29th January.
South Reading Patient Voice will hold its first regular meeting of 2023 at 6pm on Wednesday, 8th February. This should be online via Microsoft Teams and in person in Committee Room 1 at the Civic Offices, Bridge Street, Reading RG1 2LU.
We will discuss local news and patient experience and also our work plans for 2023.
All GPs now have direct access to cancer diagnostic scans, saving an intermediate referral to a hospital consultant.
NHS England says, "Under the scheme, around 67,000 people who are usually diagnosed with cancer through non-urgent testing will now be eligible for fast-tracking and have a better chance of their disease being picked up at an earlier stage."