South Reading Patient Voice will meeet online at 6pm on Wednesday 21st April 2021

The Covid Outbreak Engagement Board for Reading meets at 2pm on Friday 23rd April 2021. To attend send email to nicky.simpson@reading.gov.uk or use this link .

During our recent survey of "What Older Patients Think of Digital Access to GP Surgeries" we discovered that some patients were experiencing extreme difficulties in contacting their GP surgeries by phone, to the point where they were going without their regular medications. Now Healthwatch Reading is conducting a survey on whether patients are experiencing difficulties in accessing their GP surgeries by telephone. Please take their survey here or by phoning the survey team on 07786 476 257. (Please let us know if you have difficulty getting through.)

South Reading Patient Voice meets at 6pm on Wednesday, 17th March 2021. We will discuss development of the Covid-19 vaccination programme and our recent workshop on older peoples' digital access to GP surgeries as well as local news.

Berkshire West CCG's Governing Body meets (could this be for the last time?) at 9.30 am - 11.30 am on Tuesday 9th March. Please join with this link .

As part of their "Oldies Online Too" project South Reading Patient Voice has conducted a survey of older peoples experience and opinions of digital access to GP surgeries. The results will be presented and discussed at an online workshop from 10am - 11.30am, Wednesday 17th March . Wrokshop participants will receive the full report. There will be an introduction by Cllr Graeme Hoskin, chair of Reading's Health and Wellbeing Board. Sign up for the workshop at healthsurvey.uk/workshop

Reading's Health and Wellbeing Board meets on Friday 19th March at 2pm via Teams. To receive a link or to pose a question please send email to Nicky.Simpson@reading.gov.uk

House of Lords, London SW1A 0PW tylerp@parliament.uk home 01452 812099 22 February 2021 As we receive our Covid-19 vaccination free from the NHS many of us may be reminded both of our good fortune and of the challenge faced by lower income countries. Since it is so obviously in everyones interest that the pandemic is tackled on a global basis there is now a practical way to say thank you. This week GAVI (the Global Alliance on Vaccination and Immunisation) has made it possible for us to make individual donations to support COVAX, the UN/WHO sponsored initiative to provide access to safe and effective Covid-19 vaccine in 92 poorer countries. We hope as many UK vaccine recipients as possible will follow our lead to donate what they can to this programme through the website www.gavi.org/donate by selecting the specific link for COVAX One World Protected. In this way we can all celebrate our first or second vaccination with a very practical contribution to the efforts to defeat the pandemic: Get One = Give One. Signatories: Helene Hayman (Baroness Hayman, former Lord Speaker, Crossbencher) Doreen Lawrence (Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon, Labour) Alan Smith (Lord Bishop of St Albans) Paul Tyler (Lord Tyler, Liberal Democrat) George Young (Lord Young of Cookham, Conservative)

The Reading Covid-19 Outbreak Engagement Board meets on line at 2pm on Friday 26th February 2021. Please contact Nicky.Simpson@reading.gov.uk to take part.