BARN CLOSE SURGERY
PATIENT PARTICIPATION GROUP
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We held our first patient group on Thursday 18th August 2011. Dr John Hughes chaired the meeting with Christine Milton (Practice Manager), Gillian Bonner (Receptionist) representing the surgery and our invited guest speaker, Mr Richard Allen, Business Manager of Abbey Medical Practice, Evesham. Twelve out of the fifteen patients who originally showed an interest in being involved were able to attend. The meeting lasted for one hour in which Dr Hughes commenced by giving a short presentation on key areas around having a PPG. PPGs are not a new concept to general practice, some practices have had a group for a great number of years just as Abbey Medcial Practice in Evesham have. Their group has been running for seven years. The main focus of the evening was to agree a mechanism for identifying what our patients think of 'how we are doing' at the surgery and it was agreed that a well constructed patient survey would be a good starting point. Other members of the group would like to hold 'chronic disease' awareness events to help inform and educate patients who have either been recently diagnosed or been living with a disease for a long time. This was found to be a good idea.
It was also agreed that the PPG should be run by the members of the group with assistance from staff at Barn Close Surgery, Richard Allen agreed that in his experience it is of vital importance that the members of the PPG feel that this is their group and that how it develops is up to them. With this in mind the group are to identify a chairperson and a secretary.
It was agreed that the group should meet at the surgery on Tuesday 13th September 2011 between 12.30pm and 2.30pm so they can spend time getting to know each other and vote for a chairperson and secretary.
It was agreed that the PPG once developed would meet on a quarterly basis but in the shorterm we should meet again in one month's time and a date has been agreed for Thursday 22nd September 2011.
We are still very interested in recruiting patients for our group, we feel it is vital that all patients are represented in all age groups for us to be successful.
IF YOU ARE INTERESTED AND FEEL YOU WOULD LIKE TO PARTICIPATE PLEASE CONTACT THE SURGERY AND ASK TO SPEAK TO OUR PRACTICE MANAGER, CHRISTINE MILTON
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Are you interested in finding out more about Barn Close Surgery?
Would you like to influence the development of local health services?
Barn Close Surgery is keen to set up a Patient Participation Group and if
you would like to be involved please ask at reception or via the comment box
when ordering your repeat prescription for a
Patient Participation Group Interest Form
A date and time will be arranged once a number of people have
expressed an interest.
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THIS IS NOT A FORUM FOR PATIENTS TO DISCUSS THEIR MEDICAL PROBLEMS
Briefly, this is an opportunity:
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for practice staff and patients to discuss topics of mutual interest in Barn Close Surgery
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for patients to make positive suggestions about the practice
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for patients to encourage Health Education Activities
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for patients to develop self-help projects to meet the needs of fellow patients
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to act as a representative group that can be called upon to influence the local provision of Health and Social Care
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to get involved with annual patient surverys to help Barn Close Surgery understand the changing needs of their patients
SHOULD YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS PLEASE DO NOT HESITATE TO CONTACT THE SURGERY AND ASK TO SPEAK TO CHRISTINE MILTON, PRACTICE MANAGER