Welcome to the PPG
Twyford Surgery is rated amongst the best in Hampshire and as a Patient Participation Group we work with the surgery to help keep it that way. We meet with the surgery approximately four times a year to share views and ideas and hold joint events on subjects related to healthcare and wellbeing.
If you are registered with the surgery, you are also members of the PPG. Whilst we welcome all enquiries, we would particularly welcome younger patients and their views on how best to develop services and patient care.
As Dr Phil Hammond, a journalist and broadcaster as well as a GP, once wrote:
“Patients and carers are the smoke alarms for the frontline of the NHS. They are often first to spot poor care and also have great ideas about how to make care better tailored to patient needs…..Patient Participation Groups are a crucial way of harnessing the voice of the patient in primary care…”
Join our Patient Participation Group
If you wish to participate please contact the Practice or complete the online form by clicking on the button shown below.
You can download the sign-up form below, print it out, fill it in, and post it to the Practice, put it through the letterbox, or hand it to a Receptionist.
Download the pdf version of our sign up form
OR: if you prefer, contact our chair, Hazel Crosthwaite, at [email protected]. She will be happy to help and can also provide further information.
We aim to acknowledge your request within a few days. Please note that the PPG cannot become involved in matters of a specifically medical or clinical nature.
Non-urgent advice: PPG Committee
Our PPG committee is made up of:
Chair: Hazel Crosthwaite (Colden Common)
Vice-chair: Angela Forder-Stent (Twyford)
Treasurer: Michael Cleary (Owslebury)
Jade Cornwall (Colden Common)
Marilyn Taylor (Colden Common)
Susan Hancock (Colden Common)
Catherine Fox (Owslebury)
1:To represent the views of patients at the practice
2:To increase patients’ awareness of health-related issues
3:To increase PPG members’ awareness of patient issues needs and views for the PPG to effectively represent these.
4:To support the surgery to bring about positive change to health services.
Non-urgent advice: Date of next Patient Participation Group meeting
Date(s) to be announced
The National Association of Patient Participation
The national association for patient participation aims to promote the role and benefits of PPGs to patients, the public and health professionals, to create more understanding of the value of true patient participation also to promote the support available from N.A.P.P.
The information you supply us will be used lawfully, in accordance with the Data Protection Act 2018. The Data Protection Act 2018 gives you the right to know what information is held about you and sets out rules to make sure that this information is handled properly.