The inaugural meeting of the Patient Participation Group took place on Tuesday January 10th 2012. As a result of this, a Patient Satisfaction Survey is to take place shortly, and members of the PPG will be helping to organise this. Once we have  sufficient responses members of the PPG will be analysing the results, making suggestions for changes / improvements and publishing a report. Watch this space!.

To ensure that the Group is truly representative of the Practice Profile, we would like to recruit more patients under the age of 40 on to the Group. Please ask at Reception for more detilas, or ring Alan Packard, Practice Manager or Sue Sole, Office Manager.

In common with many other Practices throughout the country, Park Practice is seeking to establish a Patient Participation Group.

The idea behind the group is:

• To obtain feedback on the services we already provide.
• To seek views on what additional services our patients would like to see provided, either by this Practice alone, or by the wider health community.

We will welcome the personal views of the group members, but will also need their input and support in running a survey amongst the whole patient base, so that we obtain the widest possible set of responses.

It is important that the composition of the group reflects the make up of the Practice population, by age / sex/ needs etc, and so we are asking all those who might be interested in joining the group to complete a short application form, which is available from Reception.

It is anticipated that the Group will meet approximately every 4 weeks, at a time which is convenient to the majority of members. Meetings will be limited to a maximum of 90 minutes.

If you would like to speak to anybody in order to obtain more details, please direct your enquiries to one of the GPs, Alan Packard ( Practice Manager) or Sue Sole ( Office Manager)