The Patient Participation Group (PPG) is an essential and valued part of all our practices and helps us to understand what the patient experience is really like. You can contact the PPG directly on warwickhouseppg@gmail.com.
Patient Participation Group Membership – Core Group
Warwick House Medical Practice is a friendly surgery with a caring team of Doctors and Advanced Care Practitioners supported by Nurses and Staff whose priority it is to
provide high quality care and to treat you with courtesy and respect.
We are committed to providing a comprehensive health service available to all that also includes the right to automatic membership of the
Patient Participation Group (PPG). We regard all of our patients as members of the group.
Our Patient Participation Group is a connection between the practice and its patients giving the opportunity for constructive discussions
on how services are planned and developed.
They work with the practice to develop communication strategies in the local community about health awareness and also to encourage
appropriate use of the healthcare services in order to optimise their effectiveness.
Within the PPG, there is a Core Group of volunteers that meet on a regular basis at the surgery. Core Group meetings give these patients
the opportunity to discuss topics of mutual interest and provide a means to make positive suggestions about the practice. Every patient is
welcome and encouraged to join in with the Core Group activities and meetings.
Patients who support Core Group activities and attend meetings make a significant contribution to the way in which the surgery is run and
provide a voice that contributes to the wellbeing of all patients at the practice as well as their own and their family’s.
Core Group meeting dates are available from the Practice Manager.
Our Patient Group is open to new members.
The role of the patient group is to:
- Be a critical friend to the practice
- Advise the practice on the patient perspective and provide insight into the responsiveness and quality of services
- Encourage patients to take greater responsibility for their own and their family’s health
- Carry out research into the views of those who use the service
- Organise health promotion events and improve health literacy
- Provide regular communication with the patient population
(Source: The Patients Association).
The agenda, minutes and activity presentation for our recent meetings are available under 'Meeting Minutes' (please see the section on the right of this page).
The Patient Group works best when it reflects the whole practice population – we would particularly be interested to welcome younger patients or those with recent experience of the practice.
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