Purton Surgery has an active Patient Participation Group (PPG) which is a member of the National Association for Patient Participation (NAPP). We aim to benefit both patients and the surgery in a number of ways, including:

• Meeting regularly, as a committee, with representatives from the surgery.
• Working with the practice to improve patient experience
• Raising funds for items that are not NHS funded.
• Arrange and organise themed evenings regarding health issues
• Producing a regular newsletter

Meeting with other Patient groups to share best practice
Through fundraising the PPG has helped to provide a new touch-screen check-in system; the chairs with arms in both Purton and Green Gable Surgeries; a dermatoscope and also a doppler. Current fundraising is for an automated door for the Purton surgery

The PPG organises Health Information evenings, usually twice a year, on a variety of health topics when we have medical staff to talk. Normally these medical staff are from Great Western Hospital. We have covered topics such as Diabetes, Arthritis, Alzheimer’s, Orthopaedics, Cardiology, Ovarian cancer, Prostate cancer, Breast cancer and Sepsis.

Our Newsletters contain a range of information. These are sent to local magazines (Purton, Cricklade, Lydiard Millicent, Minety, Ashton Keynes) for inclusion and emailed Bcc {much earlier than the magazine is delivered} to patients who have supplied their email addresses.

If you would like to be kept in touch then please email us on groupforpatients@gmail.com or alternatively give your email address to a member of the surgery staff for the attention of Kai Howard, Practice Manager.
Please note: Members of the PPG have no access to patients’ medical records.

G4P (Group For Patients) Members

Marietta Crockford (Chair)

Christine Rawlings (Vice Chair)

Sheila Fowler (Secretary)

Jeanne Perons

Trish Baker

Peter Berry

Representatives for the Surgery

Kai Howard (Practice Manager)

Linda Hoffen

Jess Knotts

Purton and Green Gable Surgery

PPG

Newsletter no 64 February 2020

Next Information evening – Thursday 19 March, Dr Gomara, Mindfulness

Our next Information Evening will be on Thursday 19 March when Dr Gomara will be talking on Mindfulness. This will be in Purton Surgery from 7.30-9pm.  Tickets (free) are needed to manage numbers and are available from Purton Surgery.

Quiz Evening with a Fish and Chip Supper – Friday 27 March, Silver Threads Hall, Purton

We will be holding another Quiz evening with a Fish and Chip Supper on Friday 27 March.  Doors open 7pm for 7.30pm start in Silver Threads Hall, Purton. Teams of six, please bring your own drinks and glasses. Tickets at £9 each are limited and are available from Purton Surgery.

Coffee Morning, 35 High Street, Purton – Saturday 28 March, 10am-12 noon 

Many thanks to Sylvia Freemantle who will be holding a Coffee Morning on Saturday 28 March with all profits going to the PPG to benefit patients of Purton and Green Gable Surgery. Sylvia’s coffee mornings are well known in Purton, do come and support it. Coffees, teas, cakes plus a variety of stalls.

Purchase of Automated door for Purton Surgery

The automated door is now being purchased, after negotiation the cost has been confirmed at just under £4000.

Future purchases

The doctors have agreed a priority list for future purchases by the PPG and money raised will go towards these priorities which are: Baby change unit; 24 Hour ECG machine; adjustable couches for those consulting rooms which currently do not have them, including Cricklade; a chair with arms for patients in consulting rooms, including Cricklade; an I-Stat handheld portable blood analyser; a paediatric pulse oximeter to measure oxygen saturation on babies..

Parking at Purton Surgery

Thank you to those patients who are parking considerately at Purton Surgery, it makes such a difference to pedestrians - in particular those with wheelchairs or pushchairs.