Thursby Surgery - Patient Participation Group

Are you interested in finding out more about your surgery?

Would you like to influence the development of local health services?

The Practice is keen to set up a virtual Patient Participation Group with the aims of:-

• Create and improve two-way communication between patients, the Practice and the community it serves
• To bring a sense of partnership between Practice and patients
• Provide an avenue for patients input in the way facilities and services are planned and executed
• Provide constructive two-way feedback on patient and community needs, concerns and interests
• Support the Practice in good health promotions, preventative medicine and health literacy
• Collect patient opinions and experiences to help the practice to evaluate its services.
• Communicate to the practice community and/or the wider community information about the practice.

If you feel you could commit to such a group please complete the registration form on this web site.

Patient Participation Group Membership

All registered patients are welcome to join.  However the virtual group will, initially be restricted to 100 patients.  However, over time, we may form some specialist sub groups to deal with specific topics utilising the individual skills of the group.

Participation will, in the main, be by e-mail, although we do envisage some meetings at the Practice.  These meetings will probably be held outside of normal Practice opening hours in the evening and at weekends.

Dear Patient,

We would like to know how we can improve our service to you and how you perceive our surgery and staff. 

To help us with this, we are setting up a virtual patient representation group so that you can have your say. We will ask the members of this representative group some questions from time to time, such as what you think about our opening times or the quality of the care or service you received. We will contact you via email and keep our surveys succinct so it shouldn’t take too much of your time.

We aim to gather around a hundred patients from as broad a spectrum as possible to get a truly representative sample. We need young people, workers, retirees, people with long term conditions and people from non-British ethnic groups.

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 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 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

The first introductory meeting of the Patient Participation Group was held on 5th December 2011 when interested patients attended.  It was agreed to hold the next meeting on Monday 9th January 2012 at 6.30 p.m. in the Surgery.  If you are interested in attending this meeting please contact Phillipa Hill, Practice Manager.

We hope at this next meeting to elect a Chair of the group plus any other officers, to look at a survey that can be carried out in the hope of detecting ways in which the surgery can improve services for patients and to look at future ideas and innovations to improve services and/or facilities for the surgery and patients.

If you would like to be involved in moving our services forward by taking part in occasional surveys, then please complete our Patient Group Sign Up form so we can contact you and keep you informed.

We look forward to hearing from you.

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