Purton Surgery has an active Patient Participation Group (PPG) which is a member of the National Association for Patient Participation (NAPP). Aiming 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 with medical staff to talk. Normally these medical staff are from Great Western Hospital. Past topics have included Diabetes, Arthritis, Alzheimer’s, Orthopaedics, Cardiology, Ovarian cancer, Prostate cancer, Breast cancer and Sepsis.

PPG also offer a Newsletters containing 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 on groupforpatients@gmail.com or visit the Purton Surgery website at https://www.purtonsurgery.co.uk/ppg.aspx, 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.