Bradford Road Medical Centre

PATIENT PARTICIPATION GROUP

Bradford Road Medical Centre has a Patient Participation Group which meets every three months with a speaker on particular subjects of interest. These meetings are advertised in the BRMC Newsletter and on the plasma screens in the waiting rooms. All patients are welcome. Membership is £3.00 per year for one person or £5.00 for a family. Membership entitles you to a newsletter sent to your home and funds our meetings. The newsletter, informing patients of current events around the surgery, is produced three times a year.

The aims of our Group are as follows: -

1. To establish and maintain communication between doctors and patients, and in particular to give feedback to the practice about patients' principal concerns and expectations.
   
   
2. To provide an informal mechanism for receiving patients' suggestions and constructive criticism about the practice and its organisation.
   
   
3. To offer a forum for the discussion of health education topics of interest to patients with special reference to the promotion of health and the prevention of disease.
   
   
4. To encourage the development of voluntary community care, especially for the housebound and elderly, and the setting up of self-help groups for patients with particular needs.
   
   
5. To act as a community pressure group on health-related matters, and to bring local needs to the attention of Primary Care Trust, Health and Local Authorities.
   
   
6. To undertake fund-raising activities in order to provide extra facilities for the practice and its patients.
   
   

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