The Exe Valley practice Patient Participation Group (PPG)

• Are you interested in finding out more about The Exe Valley Practice?
• Would you like to influence the development of local health services?

The Patient Participation Group as a self-organising and patient-led forum, set up with the aim to improve communication between the practice and its patients.

We want to involve as wide a cross-section of our community as we can and to hear what you have to say.

Our Key Tasks and Objectives are to:

• contribute to practice decision-making and consult on service development and provision;
• provide feedback on patient’s needs, concerns and interests and challenge the practice constructively whenever necessary;
• serve as a representative for patients whilst also helping them to understand the practice’s point of view;
• act as representatives to attempt to influence the provision of health and social care;
• provide a means for patients to make positive suggestions about the practice and their own healthcare;
• influence the provision of secondary healthcare and social care locally;
• participate in all community engagement activities for example on the provision of new services or changes in service development of the NHS by providing feedback.

For more information contact:

Sheena Hunter-Hedges

Chair Exe Valley practice PPG

01392 860843

email: sheena@kineticart.co.uk

Patient Participation is:

Patients working with the practice to:

• contribute to the continuous improvement of services;
• foster improved communication between the practice and its patients;
• help patients to take more responsibility for their health;
• and provide practical support and help to implement change.

Varied to suit local needs:

• Every group determines its own activities according to the needs of its community and the practice itself.
• Every PPG is unique, evolving to meet local needs and working with their practice to offer the patient perspective on the services that are provided.

Based on co-operation

• PPGs work by building a relationship between the practice and its patients that breaks down barriers and shares information.
• PPGs can develop to influence the wider NHS, most notably the decisions that are made on behalf of patients about the services that are to be available to them.

Patient Participation is not:

• A forum for complaints
• A fund-raising organisation
• A time-consuming activity

PPG_report_2012.pdf

PPG_report_2013.pdf