PATIENT PARTICIPATION GROUP
The new Patient Participation Group (PPG) is there to act as your voice and to represent your views to the practice.
Bottisham patients now have a body to represent their interests to the Practice.
This is an important and exciting development for all Bottisham Practice patients, and with the NHS reforms soon to start, it will be essential for patient views to be reflected in decisions on how the reforms are implemented locally. You and your families will be directly affected by these reforms in the months and years to come.
PATIENT GROUP OBJECTIVES
The Bottisham Practice Participation Group (PPG) will:
- Contribute to practice decision-making, including on service development and provision, in particular in the context of the 2011 NHS reforms;
- Provide feedback on patients’ needs, concerns and interests and challenge the practice constructively whenever necessary;
- Assist the practice and its patients by arranging voluntary groups/support within the community;
- Communicate to the practice information about the community which may affect healthcare;
- Give patients a voice in the organisation of their care;
- Promote good health and higher levels of health literacy by encouraging and supporting health education and related activities within the practice and promoting preventive medicine;
- Consult with and advise the practice on the provision of secondary healthcare and social care locally;
- Monitor services, e.g. hospital discharge and support when back in the community;
- Liaise with other PPGs and community organisations in the area; and
- Arrange with the practice for it to be represented at all Patient Group meetings (both open meetings and meetings of the Steering Committee), on the basis that practice representatives will be present to consult and to provide information and advice, and not as members of the Group.
Sign Up to our group
We would like to know how we can improve our service to you and how you perceive our surgery and staff.
In addition to our Patient Participation Group (PPG) who meets regularly (for information on our PPG, please click on the 'Patient Group' tab), we are now setting up a virtual patient representation group so that you can also 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 Group 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
The information you supply us will be used lawfully, in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998. The Data Protection Act 1998 gives you the right to know what information is held about you and sets out rules to make sure that this information is handled properly.