Patient Participation Group

General Practices have a responsibility to involve patients in relevant issues relating to the Practice and to respond appropriately to patients' views and experiences.

We would like to know how we can improve our service to you and how you perceive our surgery and staff. 

To help us with this, we are setting up a virtual Patient Participation Group. We will ask the members of this representative group some questions from time to time, such as what you think about our opening times or the quality of the care or service you received. We will contact you via email and keep our surveys succinct so it shouldn’t take too much of your time.

We aim to gather around a hundred patients from as broad a spectrum as possible to get a truly representative sample. We need young people, workers, retirees, people with long term conditions and people from non-British ethnic groups.

If you are happy for us to contact you occasionally by email please click the link below to open the sign-up form and complete all the fields.

Patient Participation Group Sign-up form

If you prefer, you can download the sign up form as a pdf document, print it out, complete it and return it to the practice.

Printable Patient Participation Group Sign-up form

We will be in touch shortly after we receive your form. Please note that no medical information or questions will be responded to via the PPG email, nor does participation in the group mean that you will receive priority treatment at the surgery.

Many thanks for your assistance

The core objectives are to:

• Facilitate and enable dialogue between patients and the Practice team and promote patient involvement in the Practice.

• Ensure patients' needs are considered in the development of the Practice systems e.g. appointment systems, telephone systems and website, providing information about and promoting understanding of such system amongst patients.

• Support the Practice to achieve its health promotion aims.

• Ensure patient participation and consultation about new developments.

• Review, and where appropriate, provide advice and recommendations on the Practice's annual patient survey

• Ensure the needs and interests of all patient groups are taken into consideration - this includes people with specific illnesses or condition, people with a disability and people from minority ethnic groups and migrant workers.

It is not a forum for individual complaints (these should be directed to the Practice Manager).

We hope that you will support us in this great opportunity to enhance the services that the Practice offers.