The primary aim of our group [PPG] is to encourage a positive and constructive relationship between patients, the Practice and the community it serves,and to ensure the practice remains accountable and responsive to all its patients' needs.

Our group is in the process of being affiliated to The National Association for  Patient Participation    

Our group key roles are:-

1. To provide an avenue for patients to make positive suggestions about the Practice and specific medical conditions as an ‘expert ‘or experienced patient
2. To encourage health activities, health promotions; preventative medicine and healthy literacy within the practice
3. To develop self-help groups
4. To act as a representative Group which can be called upon to influence the local provision of health and social care
5. To bring a sense of partnership between Practice and patients
6. Provide constructive two-way feedback on patient and community needs, concerns and interests
7. To be of practical help during busy surgery hours i.e. flu clinics
8. To explore the ever changing needs of patients

We like to keep our patients upto date with the latest news from our group. To do this we publish a newsletter at regular intervals. Please select from the list and a new window will open with the newsletter.

Newsletter Issue 1 [October 2009]

Newsletter issue 2 [September 2010]

Newsletter issue 3 [November 2010]

Newsletter issue 4 [June 2011]

Dear Patient,

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 representation group so that you can have your say. 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.

Complete the Patient Survey Sign-up Form Online

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.

Download the pdf version of our 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.

Many thanks for your assistance

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