South Reading Patient Voice will meet at 6pm on Wednesday, 29 th March 2017 at RCLC, 94, London Street RG1 4SJ to hear how patient records will become accessible from all treatment sites through the Connected Care programme from Project Manager John Devine. We will also hear news from Patient Participation Groups around the CCG area and from Healtwatch Reading.

South Reading Patient Voice will meet at 6pm on Wednesday, 222nd February at RCLC, 94, London Street RG1 4SJ to discuss work on TB in South Reading and the CCG's operational plan for the coming year. Members will also hear news from Patient Participation Groups around South Reading and from Reading Healthwatch.

South Reading Patient Voice meets to consider and plan activities for 2017 on 25th January 2017.

Different Time and Place: NHS 57-59, Bath Road, Reading RG30 2BA at 16.45pm - 18.45pm

Please foregather in the reception area. For those driving please park as available in the large car parks at the front and back of the building. For those travelling from East or Central Reading by bus the 16.05pm 1 jetblack bus from stop EP on Blagrave Street just north of the junction with Valpy Street (a short time later from stop FP on the South side of Friar Street and stop CB alongside St Mary's churchyard in St Mary's Butts) takes you to a stop a few yards beyond NHS Bath Road. Please get in touch if you would like a lift.

Our next meeting will be at 6pm on Wednesday, 30th November 2016, when we will discuss the impact of the Five Year Transformation Plan on Reading. The meeting will be at 94, London Street, Reading RG1 4SJ. We will also discuss latest news from Patient Participation Groups (PPGs) at member surgeries and news from our CCG, Healthwatch and other local organisations involved in health and wellbeing.

Our next meeting will be at 6pm on Wednesday, 30th November 2016, when we will discuss the impact of the Five Year Transformation Plan on Reading. The meeting will be at 94, London Street, Reading RG1 4SJ. We will also discuss latest news from Patient Participation Groups (PPGs) at member surgeries and news from our CCG, Healthwatch and other local organisations involved in health and wellbeing.

"Integrating Health and Social Care in Reading" will be the topic when Kevin Johnson, Reading's Integration Manager for Care Services, addresses South Reading Patient Voice on Wednesday, 26th October at 6pm at 94, London Street, Reading RG1 4SJ. The group will also hear news from Patient Participation Groups, the CCG, Healthwatch and discuss local NHS services.

The information that patients need to understand how well their GP surgery is performing is the subject of the talk and discussion led by Francis Brown of the Priory Avenue PPG on 28th September at 6pm to 7.45pm at Reading Community Learning Centre, 94, London Street, RG1 4SJ. We will also hear news from the CCG and patient participation groups, Healthwatch and discuss our future activities. The meeting is open to everyone registered with a GP practice in the South Reading CCG clinical area.

We will be discussing patient engagement in the NHS with the new lay member of the South Reading CCG Governing Body, Wendy Bower and Nikki Malin, in charge of comms support for Berkshire West CCGs. The meeting is from 6.00pm to 7.45 pm on Wednesday, 20th July 2016, at the Reading Community Learning Centre, 94, London Street, RG1 4SJ. There will also be news from PPGs and from the CCG.

There will be a discussion about developments in primary care. The set of questions posed as starters is: 

1. Where are we with the new workforce in GP surgeries?
2. What will the new alliances of practices be doing differently?
3. There are practices with closed lists in South Reading CCG area - will we have sufficient primary care capacity?
4. Cancer wait targets are being missed at RBH. What are the effects of this? Can this be put right?
5. What can be done about rising A&E attendances AND admissions?
6. Can we do more for carers at GP surgeries?
7. NHS England is proposing better incident reporting at GP surgeries. How will that work?
8. How well are we doing as regards outcomes? (See attached document taken from the NHS Choices web site.)

There will also be reports from Patient Participation Groups and from recent healthcare planning and consultation meetings held in public. Patients registered with a GP practice in the South Reading CCG area are welcome to attend.

The Macmillan Cancer Information bus - Bertie - will be in Reading this week. On Tuesday 14th November from 10am to 4pm it will be at Tesco (Oxford Road/Portman Road) at the Portman Road side. On Thursday 16th November from 10am to 4pm it will be in Broad Street, Reading. No appointment necessary - come along with your questions and talk to friendly specialists.