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Macmillan Cancer Support
One in three of us will get cancer and it’s the toughest thing most of us will ever face. If you’ve been diagnosed with cancer, or a loved one has, you’ll want a team of people in your corner supporting you every step of the way. Macmillan provide practical, medical and financial support and push for better cancer care.
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What is a Patient Participation Group

A selection of patients and Practice staff who meet at regular intervals to decide ways of making a positive contribution to the services and facilities offered by the Practice to the patients. If you wish to contact the Patient Participation Group with regards to services or facilities, please use the contact form on the next tab.

Purpose of the Patient Participation Group

  • To give practice staff and patients the opportunity to discuss topics of mutual interest in their Practice
  • To provide the means for patients to make positive suggestions about the Practice and their own healthcare
  • To encourage health education activities within the practice
  • To act as a representative group that can be called upon to influence the local provision of Health and Social Care
  • To involve further patients from the wider population

Main areas of work

Providing feedback from patients

  • Providing feedback from patients e.g. appointment systems, consultation times

Information

  • Practice leaflets
  • Newsletters
  • Informal open days

Representation

  • Acting as a representative group that can be called upon to influence the local provision of health and social care


Join the PPG

If you are happy for us to contact you occasionally by email please click the link below to open the sign-up form and complete all the fields.

complete the form Complete the Patient Group Sign-up Form 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.

download the pdf form Download the pdf version of our sign up form

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

 
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