Patient Participation Groups meet regularly to help improve services at their GP practice and to feed ideas into the planning of health services. Attending your local patient participation group means you can work with your practice to deal with issues that affect you, other local people and your GP surgery.
Who can join?
Any patients over the age of 16 registered with the practice.
How do I join the group?
Please register with our PPG. The group will have a chair, vice chair and secretary and will be supported by the Practice Manager and other staff from time to time. The group will also be supported by Healthwatch Sutton.
What does the group discuss?
The aim is to be a “critical friend” to the practice, and the group has contributed ideas to the appointments system, the garden area, online services including prescriptions, privacy at reception. It also has two representatives on Sutton’s Patient Reference Group who give wider system feedback to the group.
When do we meet?
Quarterly and currently virtual via Teams.
Non-urgent advice: Date of next Patient Participation Group meeting
Date(s) to be announced
Join our Patient Participation Group
If you wish to participate please contact the Practice or complete the online form by clicking on the button shown below.
OR: if you prefer, you can download the sign-up form below, print it out, fill it in, and post it to the Practice, put it through the letterbox, or hand it to a Receptionist.
Download the pdf version of our sign up form
We aim to acknowledge your request within a few days.
Please note that the PPG cannot become involved in matters of a specifically medical or clinical nature.
The National Association of Patient Participation
The national association for patient participation aims to promote the role and benefits of PPGs to patients, the public and health professionals, to create more understanding of the value of true patient participation also to promote the support available from N.A.P.P.
PPG Minutes
Please view our Patient Participation Group Minutes:
2023
2022
2021
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