The patient participation group (PPG) was set up in 2012 to represent our community of patients and strengthen the relationship between patients and Woolpit Health Centre.
The aim of the PPG is to provide a forum for patients to have their say, but also gain a better understanding of how the NHS works and the challenges the health centre faces in delivering high quality modern general practice services.
The PPG work in partnership with the health centre to make a difference in the following ways:
- Providing feedback on patient experience;
- Helping to gather intelligence from patient surveys;
- Advising on how to improve the health centre environment and services;
- Helping to educate patients on changes to access and services;
- Challenging the health centre to improve communication with patients;
- Supporting health and wellbeing campaigns.
The PPG currently meets face to face for an afternoon, every three months.
Our current PPG members:
Pam Frost (Chair, Woolpit)
Rosemary Kearsley (Tostock), David Hawes (Elmswell), Caroline Cooke (Wetherden), Mary Jones (Wetherden), Clarissa Gosling (Wetherden), Alan Clark (Hunston), Michele Lavender (Woolpit), Sasha Peggs (Elmswell), Julia Walker (Woolpit), Sarah Howard (Woolpit).
Dr Richard West (WHC – Senior GP Partner), Samantha Rushton (WHC – Primary Care Network Manager) and Cali O’Brien (WHC – PCN Care Co-ordinator).
We are keen to ensure that our PPG is a truly representative sample of our patient community. We need young people, workers, retirees, carers, people with long-term conditions and people for non-British ethnic groups.
If you are interested in more information please send an email to woolpitppg@gmail.com
You can also join the Woolpit Health Centre (WHC) facebook group on https://www.facebook.com/woolpithealth/.