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What is a PPG?
A
Patient Participation Group
(PPG) is a group of patients,
carers and GP practice staff
who meet to discuss practice issues
and patient experience to improve
the service. The purpose of a PPG
is to give patients and practice staff
the opportunity to meet and discuss
topics of mutual interest.
The first PPG was set up
on 30th November 1972 Although it is interesting to note that there is
at The Health Centre in no single or definitive model for a PPG this is
Berinsfield, near Oxford considered a good thing. Each group can evolve
and develop and be different according to the
PPGs within General Practices are not new. The wishes of the patients in each Practice - the
first PPG was set up on 30th November 1972 Practice Population.
at The Health Centre in Berinsfield, near Oxford. At this moment in time Manea Surgery is
Since April 2016 all GP practices in England are undergoing some PPG changes in order for
now required to have in place a PPG as part of this to operate effectively for Manea village.
complying with the GP contract. However, there Providing the Practice / PPG provides an article
is no particular requirement, nor description in we hope to publish bespoke information in the
statute, of what constitutes a PPG, what it can next edition of Manea Matters.
do, how it should be organised, and whether
it should be a face-to-face group or a virtual
group, or both. Advice and guidance can
be sought from the National Association
for Patient Participation (NAPP).
NAPP is a registered charity
in England and Wales; formed
in 1978 and now acts as an
umbrella organisation for
PPGs within the Primary Care
setting.
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