NHS England has issued details of the changes to GP incentives to support the Covid-19 vaccination campaign. Some QOF incentive payments will be based on prior years performance. Other funds are diverted to the Covid-19 vaccination campaign provided all practices in a Primary Care network sign up to participate actively by 10th December. The changes persist until April 2022. Additionally NHS England had made arrangements with Microsoft for the telephony facility of Teams (that is telephony over broadband) to be usable for outgoing calls by GP practices until April 2022, thereby freeing up phone lines for in-coming calls. Details are given in the attached document.

A panel convened by the organisation "Keep Orur NHS Public" has heard evidence on the Government's handling of the Covid-19 pandemic. Its report is published under the title "Misconduct in Public Office". Please see the document linked below.

South Reading Patient Voice holds a combined meeting and Annual General Meeting at 6pm on Wednesday 17th November 2021. Please see below for meeting papers. Nominations and suggestions may be made at

The Governing bodies of BOB area CCGs meet in common at 9am on Tuesday 14th December 2021. Further details to follow.

The CCG Commissioning committees of the BOB area meet on common on Thursday 16th December 20231 at 10-12am. To join the meeting please click here Further details to follow

Reading's Health and Wellbeing board meets via MS Teams at 2pm on Friday 21st January 20222. Questions should be emailed to NIckySimpson@reading.gov.uk> a week before the meeting. Please click here to join the meeting. For meeting papers - see below.

The Royal Berkshire Hospital NHS Foundation Trust which provides for acute care at the Royal Berkshire Hospital and sites at Townlands Henley, Thatcham, Bracknell Healthspace, is holding its annual general meeting at 5.30pm on Tuesday 12th October 2021. The meeting will be online using Zoom. Please click this link The passcode is given as T6auGj but you may not need to use it.

Agenda

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust holds its AGM at 2pm on Wednesday, 22nd September 2021. Berkshire Healthcare provides community nursing, community hospitals and mental health care for Berkshire. A recording of the AGM can be viewed by clicking on this link .

The long-awaited consultation on same day healthcare has been started by Berkshire West CCG. This includes the question of whether the suspended Walk-In service at the Broad Street mall GP practice should be restarted. It was suspended because the CCG failed to reach agreement with the provider Assura - a partnership between local practices and Virgin Healthcare. Please complete the survey here . The survey runs untli Monday 4th October.

Berkshire West CCG has engaged charity Together to operate a mental health crisis cafe, the Berkshire West "Breathing Space" in Reading. The service is open on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays, 5pm to 11pm at Ajilon House, 28 Friar Street, Reading RG1 1DT (next to Treatz). To access support - call Together on freephone 0800 0029091 or email breathing-space@together-uk.org . See the attached leaflets for more on this service and other crisis support.