The BOB Interated Care Board meets in public from 10am to 1pm on Wed 15th November 2022.
The meeting can be live streamed
by clicking here .
The BOB Integrated Care Board will meet in public at 10am on Tuesday, 17th January 2023.
South Reading Patient Voice Annual General Meeting will take place in the Main Hall at RISC - 35-39, London Street, RG1 4PS at 6pm on Wednesday, 16th November 2022.
Members are asked to attend in person if possible as it is felt that a better discussion communication will result. Refreshments will be served. There is plenty of room in the Main Hall for social distancing.
John Burn-Murdoch, writing in the Financial Times on 4th November 2022 (behind paywall) has shown that chronic illness has increased radically since the pandemic with almost 500,000 more people in the economically active age range of 16-64 not in the work force as a result. He proposes that long waiting lists are now a significant factor keeping some of them out. Of the various conditions Mental Health problems are most likely to keep people out of the work force permanently.
Dr Kit Yates of Bath University, and member of Independent SAGE gives an account of the present state of the NHS..
South Reading Patient Voice meets in person and online on Wednesday, 19th October 2022 at 6pm., in Meeting Room 1, RISC, 35-39, London Street RG1 4PS and online via Zoom.
Members will discuss the latest GP patient survey, the last meeting of the Reading Health and Wellbeing Board, and news of local PPGs and providers.
Please see the attached agenda and minutes of last meeting.
Reading's Pakistani Community Centre, at 373 London Road, RG1 3PA, will be hosting a COvid-19 Vaccine and wellbeing event from 11am to 3pm on Sunday 23rd October 2022.
All welcome.
The annual history symposium of the Berkshire Medical Heritage Centre takes place on Saturday 19th November in the Old Library at the Royal Berkshire Hospital. There is a charge of £5 to attendees. Please see the attached document for booking and joining ///details.
The programme is as follows:
9.35 Dr Jamieson Hurry and Reading Abbey
Malcolm Summers
10.15 Are There No Workhouses - Are There No Prisons?
Lionel Williams
10.55 Refreshments (in the Consultants’ Room)
11.25 The Road to the Recognition of Nurse Training - 1890-1922
South Reading Patient Voice meets at 6pm on Monday 3rd October at 59, Alexandra Road or online via Zoom
to hear Andrew Haydon, staff governor at the Royal Berkshire Hospital NHS Foundation Trust talk about staff issues
in the NHS.
Use this link to join the meeting - no passcode.
The BOB Integrated Care Board will meet at 10.00 - 13.00 on Tuesday 27th September 2022.
Papers will be available a week before the meeting.
Questions relating to the agenda should be sent in advance to bobicb.enquiries@nhs.net .