The purpose of the Patient Participation Group (PPG) is to ensure that patients and carers are involved in decisions about the range, shape and quality of services provided by their practice.  The requirement aims to promote the proactive and innovative involvement of patients and carers through the use of effective PPGs and to act on a range of sources of patient and carer feedback in order to improve the services delivered by the practice.

The role of the PPG includes:

• being a critical friend to the practice
• advising the practice on the patient perspective and providing insight into the responsiveness and quality of services
• encouraging patients to take greater responsibility for their own and their family’s health
• carrying out research into the views of those who use the practice
• organising health promotion events and improving health literacy
• ongoing communication with the patient population.

This guidance supports practices to meet the contractual requirements and provides examples of the activities that support good participation.

If you are a registered patient of this surgery, and would be interested in serving on such a group, please click on the image opposite and complete the details.

All meetings are held at Harborough Field Surgery between 16.30 - 18.00

Below you can find the Meeting Minutes from previous meetings held by the PPG

PPG Minutes 9 December 2024.docx

AGM Minutes 10 February 2025.docx

PPG Minutes 10 Februry 2025.docx

PPG Mintures 28 April 2025

The Agenda for the next next meeting can be found below once it has been shared.