Patient Participation Group

What do you want from your surgery?

The NHS white paper on GP commissioning and the NHS cuts affect us all and raise a number of questions.

If you want to be kept up to date and have the opportunity to express your views please consider joining Baslow’s Patient Participation Group (PPG).

Formed in 2009, every patient of the surgery can register to be a member of the PPG; all you have to do is contact the membership secretary, Keith Maslen.

kmaslen@aol.com

01246 582274

The PPG is run by a committee of 12 individuals elected annually by the full membership. A list of current committee members is available on the surgery notice board.

Our objectives are to:

  • Enhance communications between the practice and its patients
  • Foster the highest possible standard of primary medical care
  • Help raise funds to support practice improvement

In reality this translates into a number of activities in which members can engage. Current projects include:

  • Working with the surgery & patients to determine the accommodation and services of the new Baslow Health Centre.
  • Helping the practice to retain the dispensary which is under threat from large chemists
  • Looking at ways to improve communication between patients and staff and to improve the environment of the surgery
  • Fund raising to provide information screens and children’s play equipment for the new Health Centre
  • Supporting Artability, a Calver based charity which helps provide support dementia sufferers & their carers.

The NHS changes mean it is moving towards services needing to take into account what ‘customers’ want. Under the proposed North Derbyshire GP Commissioning Consortium, representatives of local patient groups will to be involved right up to board level. This will enable patients to directly influence where the cuts fall and have a say in what health services we want at a much more strategic level.

To get involved and help shape the NHS of the future, start by registering as a member of the PPG and by telling the PPG committee members of issues that affect you. Then you could volunteer to help…….it’s up to you!

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Please email: baslowpatients@gmail.com if you would like to be emailed a copy of the PPG newsletter when it is published.

Join Us

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 Register for the Patient Participation Group 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.

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.

PPG Reports

Surveys

Meeting Minutes