About our PPG
We have set up a Patient Participation Group and are looking for patients from all age groups, social and cultural backgrounds to join us.
Patient participation can benefit both patients and practices. The role of the PPG is to serve as a mechanism which at different times can represent the patient population to the practice, and the practice to the wider community. PPG’s offer practices an effective way to develop patient confidence and forge a constructive dialogue between the practice and the wider community. This includes enabling patients to understand the implications of proposed changes to services, how change may affect other provisions, and what limitations on resources there may be.
Practice populations include a wide range of skills which can be harnessed by a good PPG to the benefit of both the group and the practice.
PPGs can be used as a sounding board for ideas before they go out to a wider audience. They are also an excellent way to mobilize and give a voice to the goodwill that practices have in their community.