The Governing Body of Berkshire West Clinical Commissioning Group meets at 57, Bath Road, Reading RG30 2BA from 9.30 to 12.30. You can register to attend here.

A Royal Berkshire Hospital Patient Partnership Conference takes place from 13.00 - 16.30 on Friday 14th June 2019 at the Hospital Education Centre. If interested please contact Maria Walker .

Berkshire West Primary Care Commissioning Committee meets at 13.00 on Wed 10th July 2019 at 55-57 Bath Road, Reading (changed from Shaw House, Newbury). Please register here. by noon on the 9th July. To ask questions please email them to bwccg.enquiries@nhs.net by 5pm on 8th July or relate tor telephone: them by phone to 0118 982 2922.

Reading's Health and Wellbeing Board meets at 2pm on Friday 12th July 2019 in the Council Chamber at the Civic Offices on Bridge Street, Reading. Questions for the board should be provided at least 2 weeks in advance and emailed to nicky.simpson@reading.gov.uk.

There will be a drop-in session from 11.00 to 14.00 on Wednesday, 17th July 2019 at the Macmillan Cancer information Centre, Royal Berkshire Hospital, North Block, Level 1. This is for carers for anyone with a long-term condition - not just cancer. . You will find out what support Carer's Hub can offer and meet a support worker to find out what is available to you.

South Reading Patient Voice meets at 6pm on Wednesday 29th May. We will hear Pat Bunch of Reading Healthwatch describe current projects including the Family and Friends project. We will also discuss local NHS news and news from local Patient Participation Groups.

Reading will mark Carers Week (10th - 14th June) with a number of events, including the Market Place in Broad Street Mall at 11am - 2pm on Wednesday, 12th June, in which South Reading Patient Voice will take part. Please use this link to find details of other events for Carers' Week 2019. Berkshire CCGs will be running a "Hidden Carers" campaign to encourage carers who do not recognise their role and entitlements (often a son or daughter looking after a parent in their middle life) to step forward and ask for their rights as carers.

Rachel Cooke, a Public Health officer with Bristol City Council, is developing a healthy weight pathway and is asking for input about any weight management strategies that you may or may not have used in the past. Please complete this survey to provide some information on current behaviour. This request comes via Berkshire West CCG.

Thames Valley Clinical Network and Senate is running a conference on Improving Diabetes Care and Cardiovascular Disease Care. This will be all day on 21st June 2019 at the Reading Hilton. To book please access this link

South Reading Patient Voice actively supported the NHS's Type2 Diabetes Prevention Week from 1st to 7th April 2019. We manned our stall and spoke to hundreds of people, handing out leaflets on diabetes awareness and on the NHS's "Healthier You" program, which is operated in Berkshire West and available to those at risk of Type 2 Diabetes, by referral by a GP. Diabetes UK, the diabetes charity offers a "Know Your Risk" assessment. Our stall was in the lobby of Morrison's supermarket on Tuesday, 2nd April. Our stall was in the Town Centre on Thursday morning and lunch time. Our stall was at South Reading Community Centre on Friday morning. We were surprised by the number of people that we spoke to that did have Type 2 Diabetes - there are 3.8 million in England. All that we spoke to were aware of their nine annual tests. We were also surprised to meet some people who seemed resigned to getting Type 2 Diabetes as they had several immediate family members or friends with the condition. This is something that could be changed.