Your PPG: Aims and objectives of the PPG
- Our primary aim is to listen to patient concerns, provide a patient voice and promote a patient led culture
- Provide feedback to the practice to help provide the best possible service
- The promotion of better healthcare and treatment
Want to join?
Highcliffe Medical Centre (HMC) and the Patient Participation Group (PPG) collaborate to give all patients of the practice the chance to become more involved with two main forms of engagement.
Depending on the amount of time patient volunteers have, and the way in which they wish to be involved, there are opportunities to:
- Join the PPG Committee: periodic (quarterly) meetings with HMC to review patient feedback & consider how the patient experience might be improved.
- Build two-way relationships between patients and the practice.
- Explore any areas of HMC services that might be improved.
- Conduct patient surveys or collect feedback in the waiting room.
- Improve communication with patients.
- Volunteer to support COVID / Flu clinics organisation and information sharing
How to join?
In the first instance please contact the email address below to notify the surgery that you wish to join the PPG. This will then be shared with the Chair of the PPG who will in turn reach out with an induction pack and details of how it works and the date of the next meeting.
The Chair is the focus point for all communications to and from the practice and will be able to support any queries or signpost you to the correct pathways should your query be something they cannot deal with.
Highcliffe Medical Centre have their own complaint, concern, suggestion and compliment feedback process and the PPG should not be used for personal complaints but should be used provoke constructive and positive conversations to support the patient journey and the practice communications.
“Help us, help you”
By emailing the following address you consent for us to share it with the Chair of the PPG group.
highcliffe.datainput@nhs.net
Terms of Reference
Name: The group is called the Highcliffe Medical Centre Patient Participation Group
Aims: To make stronger the relationship between patients and Highcliffe Medical Centre (HMC), which is considered critical to the provision of modern and high quality general practice.
Objectives:
- Building two-way relationships between patients and the practice
- Working with the practice to promote better health & wellbeing locally
- Supporting patient surveys and collecting feedback with the practice
- Developing PPG influence through good practice
Membership: The group shall normally consist of no more than 12 patients of the Practice, and this should aim to reflect a cross section of the patient body without discrimination. All members must sign a confidentiality agreement.
Meetings: Routine meetings take place quarterly at Highcliffe Medical Centre, commencing at 15.00. Additional meetings may be called as appropriate.