Patient Participation Group
Email Patient Group
The Patient Participation Group (PPG) meets regularly. If you are interested in becoming a member attending meetings of the PPG please phone or email the PPG chair – see below - with your contact details (name, phone number and email) or leave these details with the reception staff. The chair will talk to you about joining.
You may wish to join the Email Virtual Patient Engagement Group (VPEG). This will give you:
- regular information about the Practice and PPG work
- information about Adelaide open meetings and other local open meetings about health services
- opportunities to contribute to patient surveys and provide feedback
- to participate in Adelaide and other local consultation exercises about service developments.
Click on the image to complete the registration form.
How the COVID pandemic has impacted on the work of the PPG
To keep everyone safe there was an urgent need to reorganise how Practices worked and patient consultation was not always feasible at the time.
The PPG continued to meet reguarly via Zoom and provide feedback on service changes. Notes of these meetings were place on the website and circulated to the VPEG. We have now returned to face-to-face PPG meetings and are planning to reinstate at least one open meeting per year.
The usual annual survey was not feasible during and immediately after COVID but about 400 Adelaide patients contributed a Healthwatch survey on the impact of lockdown. This generated a mass of data which informed how the Practice moved forward as the pandemic eased.
In the light of the recent nation-wide survey and the use of the Friends and Family Test, we have not reinstated the former practice-led patient survey.
Practice open meetings were also impossible during COVID but locally virtual meetings were used creatively for Camden wide engagement. On a positive note, new technolgy opened up creative ways of wider engagement oppertunities.