Oxgate Gardens Patient Participation Group [PPG]

The overall aim of our group [PPG] is to develop a positive and constructive relationship between patients, the Practice and the community it serves, ensuring the practice remains accountable and responsive to all its patients needs.

Our group key roles are:-

1.  Create and improve two-way communication between patients, the Practice and the community it serves.

2.  To bring a sense of partnership between Practice and patients.

3.  Provide an avenue for patients’ input in the way facilities and services are planned and executed, to add humanity to, and influence those services.

4.  Provide constructive two-way feedback on patient and community needs, concerns and interests.

5.  Support the Practice in good health promotions, preventative medicine and health literacy

6.  Collect patient opinions and experiences to help the practice to evaluate its services.

7.  Communicate to the practice community and/or the wider community information about the practice.

8.   Liaise with the Optimus group of practices to share and develop best practice and/or resources.

Our Patient Participation Group Membership

All registered patients are welcome to join the PPG although, in the interests of effective decision making, membership of the core is limited to twelve. Specialist sub-groups may be formed to deal with specific topics utilising individual skills and interests.  Our group meets regularly approximately every twelve weeks. Members can be contacted through reception.

Harness Patient Participation Group Membership

Our Practice and our PPG is one of the sixteen local medical practices which comprises the Harness Commisioning Group, of which Harness is one of the five Commisioning Groups in Brent.

Harness aims and objectives include:-

• A consortium based Patient Liaison group in order to engage with its patients to work together on shaping future services in General practice.
• Communication links with patients about services being delivered and issues relating to the delivery and use of them; this may or may not be directed by local or national policies.
• The Harness Patient Liaison group of practices meet regularly four times a year and during that time develop ways to meet and listen to the views of the patients in all seven practices.

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

Minutes from Our PPG Meetings

Please find below the minutes from our latest meeting. The document will open using Adobe Acrobat reader.

Minutes from the Harness PPG Meetings

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Harness Minutes for Patient Forum - 11 May 2011

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