Patient Participation Group

Welcome to Strawberry Hill Medical Centre Patient Participation Group (SHMC PPG)

Every GP Surgery is required to establish a PPG but each PPG is unique, evolving to meet local needs. SHMC PPG works with the Practice to offer the following:

  • Ensure consideration
  • Help to improve communications between Clinical staff and patients and their relatives
  • Assist all parties in seeking a resolution of concerns and complaints
  • Encourage patients to take more responsibility for their health
  • Provide practical support to those who attend the surgery
  • Link with other groups in the Health sector in West Berkshire

The Organising Committee is a group of PPG members who have volunteered to represent the views of the patients of SHMC. The Organising Committee will have a Chair, Vice Chair, Secretary and other members may be co-opted for various roles. This Committee has an agreed Terms of Reference. It meets quarterly and holds an open AGM once a year.

All patients of SHMC have the opportunity (at registration or via the website) to join the PPG.

Patients may register their interest but not wish to be a member of the Organising Committee in which case, they should complete the patient participation form by which they are agreeing to be a member of the Virtual Group of the PPG. We may contact you via the Committee or Surgery by email a few times each year. This may be to send Agendas/ Minutes of the Organising Committee meetings, ask you general questions about the practice as short questionnaires, or to invite you to attend the PPG AGM. All patients of SHMC may volunteer to become members of the Committee and/or stand for office. Prior to the AGM, a meeting will usually be called for volunteers to attend and discuss their potential involvement with Committee members and PPG officers. If you would like to nominate yourself or someone else to join the PPG Organising Committee please complete the Patient Participation Group Registration form.

PPG minutes of meetings and Latest News

AGM Meetings

AGM 2024 is to be held on Wednesday 21st February 2024 at 7pm

Chairs Report

Meeting Minutes

Organising Committee Nomination

We are keen for new members to come on to the Patient Participation Group Organising Committee. The PPG and its Organising Committee seeks to achieve an accurate reflection of the Practice demographic: we do not yet have the balance we seek.  Please consider whether you wish to be involved: it is a real opportunity to support the surgery and make it better for all patients.

PPG Newsletter

Patient Survey

Patient Participation Group Patient Survey – 2022 Q3

Privacy and Data Protection

Please be assured that your contact details, email address etc. are kept safe and secure and are never shared with anyone else. Any contact will be made by the Practice or the Organising Committee on behalf of the PPG.

No medical information is provided to the PPG nor will it be sought from the Practice.  No questions of a medical or other confidential nature will be responded to by the PPG or its officers. Any 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 – the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) – to make sure that this information is handled correctly.