We will review our activities during Type 2 Diabetes Awareness Week, discuss local news and reports from local PPGs.

Mary Hannah Hudson, of NHS England, will talk about the new NHS App and the expansion of the 111 service online. We will also discuss local news and reports from local PPGs.

Reading Borough council is running a consultation on keeping active. Please do take the online questionnaire at www.reading.gov.uk/ActiveReading.

South Reading Patient Voice will meet on Wednesday, 31st July 2019 to hear a talk from Dr Rosemary Croft on "Reading - A Trauma-Aware Community?", Adverse childhood events have powerful effects on the life course. Dr Croft will introduce the evidence and current thinking on the importance of childhood trauma and will explain what is happening locally to put the thinking to practical effect. In addition, the meeting will hear and discuss news from local GP practices, Healthwatch Reading and Berkshire West CCG, Berkshire West ICS, Reading Borough Council and the WeBOB STP.

South Reading Patient Voice meets at 6pm on Wednesday 26th June 2019, to hear Linda Dobraszczyk talk about "Mental Health - the Critical First 1001 Days". We will also hear a report back from the annual conference of the National Association for Patient Participation and discuss news from local surgeries and from Reading Healthwatch.

NHS England has announced that the WeBOB Sustainability and Transformation Partnership (STP) will become an Integrated Care System (ICS). See the BOB STP website for more details. Two of its constituent areas are already Integrated Care Systems - namely Berkshire West and Buckinghamshire. These will become Integrated Care Partnerships. It is the declared policy of NHS England to push decision-making to the lowest appropriate level - so we hope that much of what has already been achieved in the Berkshire West ICS will be preserved and built upon. The WeBOB area covering Western Berkshire, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire is incoherent with respect to transport and natural connection. It will certainly be a great barrier to participation for ordinary members of the public to have to travel across this improbable area. One can only note a certain rising organisational ferment across the NHS with Primary Care Networks, GP Alliances and CCGs all seeking to determine their places in the future structure. As far as we know there has been no public consultation at all about this extraordinary move. A question was asked about this at a recent CCG Governing Body and we were told that it was far off or unlikely. Furthermore, responsibility for workforce matters has been devolved to regions, thus separating it from training under Health Education England, which is a national body. The WeBOB STP has established several work streams - among them:

• Workforce - joint working on culture, recruitment, staff support, planning, productivity
• Acute Care Collaboration - to be led by Belinda Bolton of Oxford University Hospitals FT - focusing on elective care and support service
• A Commisioning Workstream is being led by Louise Patten, Chief Executive Officer of Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire CCGs. This will review the level at which commissioning decisions should take place within the ICS area. The overall programme of work is divided into three topics; CCG commissioning, primary care commissioning and specialised commissioning. CCG commissioning is led by Louise Patten, specialised commissioning is led by Janet Meek (Regional Director of Specialised Commissioning NHS England South) and primary care commissioning is led by Cathy Winfield, Chief Executive Officer of Berkshire West CCG, who will be developing commissioning arrangements and a single strategy for primary care across the ICS area.

Reading Community Learning Centre is offering two courses on Mental Health First Aid, in July andTue & Wed July - 4 half days - 23rd, 24th, 30th, 31st October - 2 full days 22nd, 23rd Please see attached documents for details and booking form.

The groups of GP practices forming the new Primary Care Networks have been announced and are shown below. Primary Care Networks are groups of GP practices covering about 30,000 to 50,000 patients and working together to deliver a wider range of services than a smaller unit. The networks for South Reading are as follows:

1. Tilehurst - Westwood Road, Grovelands, Tilehurst Village and Chancellor House - clinical director Dr Karen Ireland, Grovelands practice
2. Whitley - London Street, Milman and Kennet Surgery, Abbey Medical Centre, Reading Walk-in Centre, - clinical director Dr Bu Thava, Milman and Kennt Surgery
3. Reading Central - Chatham Street, Russel Street, Pembroke, Melrose and Eldon Road, South Reading and Shinfield, Longbarn Lane- clinical director Dr Gerard D'Cruz, Pembroke Surgery
4. University - University Medical Group - clinical director Dr Elizabeth Johnston

For North and West Reading we have:

1. Caversham - Balmore Park, Emmer Green - clinical director Dr Andy Ciecierski, Emmer Green
2. Reading West - WesternElms and Circuit Lane, Tilehurst(Potteries)- clinical director Dr Anil Chauhan, Western Elms and Circuit Lane

There will be an exhibtion related to care services in Broad Street Mall from 11am to 2pm on Wednesday 12th June 2019. South Reading Patient Voice will be represented there.