About the Patient Participation Group

Are you interested in finding out how your GP practice works and about the health services it delivers?  

Why not join our Patient Participation Group?

Weymouth Bay Medical Practice have an active Patient Participation Group, combined of patients from Royal Crescent Surgery, Preston Road Surgery and Dorchester Road Surgery. We are always seeking new members to have a say in what we do. If you would like to join our PPG group, please contact the surgery via email, or complete a sign up form and return this to the surgery.

The Patient Participation Group play a part in shaping roles and services within the surgery. We are always seeking new members to have a say in what we do. If you would like to join our PPG group, please contact the surgery via email.

Please state your name and the surgery you are registered with or complete an online form. 

A group meeting

The PPG has the following aim as decided by its members:

"To work closely with the surgery team, representing the views of patients, to develop the workings of the surgery and improve the health of the community".

  • Promote the proactive engagement of patients.
  • Seek views from patients as appropriate.
  • Involve patients in decisions about the range and quality of services provided.
  • Involve patients in decisions that lead to changes to the services the practice provides.
  • Assist in gathering views from the wider patient population with local practice surveys.

Ground Rules

Ground rules are important to ensure people can participate fully and fairly at meetings. Members should: 

  • Be encouraged and supported to share their experiences/ views of services. 
  • Respect the views of others.
  • Allow others time to speak. 
  • Respect confidentiality: issues, comments, views should not be discussed outside the meeting, unless members agree that they can be shared or minuted. 
  • Not use the meeting to air patient confidential complaints or grievances.
  • Mute microphone at online meetings and use the ‘raise hand’ option to indicate they wish to speak. Be considerate of members who are not as IT literate as others.

This group helps us identify areas where we can improve or change, help us set goals and produce positive results. We would like to be able to find out the opinions of as many patients as possible, whether from meetings or an electronic forum.

We will keep you updated on surgery news and forward surgery newsletters.  We will meet 3 to 4 times a year.  We believe that by working together, this will help ensure the delivery of a modern, high quality general practice.

The information you supply us will be used lawfully, in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998. The Data Protection Act 1998 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.

Meeting Minutes