MINUTES OF CORE GROUP MEETING OF HALL GROVE PPG on 18 June 2015 Present: Peter Gramson (Chair), Peter Wilson, Roger Hudson (Minute taker), Dr Martin Benfield. Apologies for Absence None – Minutes of the Last Meeting Accuracy - Members agreed the minutes of the last meeting held on 5 May 2015. Matters arising from the Minutes Email list - MB reported that the list of – email addresses, of patients who had expressed an interest in receiving information about PPG activities, would be ready next week. (He has since confirmed the task has been completed.) Online services GM mentioned an issue regarding urgent prescriptions. – MB noted this and said that as part of the pilot of online services, the Practice would consider how urgent prescriptions should be handled. He added that there was already a rota at each surgery, of a nominated staff member tasked with overseeing the handling of online prescription requests, Plan PPG AGM - It was agreed that the AGM should be held after the school holidays in midSeptember. Members of the Group had contributed to a draft recruitment newsletter about the PPG and announcing the AGM. After some discussion it was agreed that the newsletter should also set out how members could contribute to the Practice by listing future initiatives for the PPG. Action: All members the newsletter would be finalised by the end of June. – PPG Report It was noted that PG would lead on the 2015/16 PPG report. – Carers’ Champion MB agreed to pursue the establishment of Champions and since the Carers’ meeting has reported that two staff members have been identified as carers’ champions (one for PW, one for HG). Geoff Morgan would also request the CCG funded training, and MB has asked that PG be involved. PW said he would make a suggestion at the next PCG meeting that each PPG should have a lead person for this topic for reporting to the PCG. MB reported that the feedback arrangements in the Practice Type 2 Together – were now operational. It was noted that PW was not able to attend the Type 2 Together network support meeting due to illness. Dementia MB reported that there was a proposal that reviews of a patient’s dementia care be done through the General Practice in the long term. The funding of this might be an issue however, as more staff resources would be required. Action: PG agreed to pursue this via the PCG next week.
MINUTES OF CORE GROUP MEETING OF HALL GROVE PPG on 18 June 2015 Present: Peter Gramson (Chair), Peter Wilson, Roger Hudson (Minute taker), Dr Martin Benfield. Apologies for Absence – None Minutes of the Last Meeting Accuracy - Members agreed the minutes of the last meeting held on 5 May 2015. Matters arising from the Minutes – Email list - MB reported that the list of email addresses, of patients who had expressed an interest in receiving information about PPG activities, would be ready next week. (He has since confirmed the task has been completed.) Online services – GM mentioned an issue regarding urgent prescriptions. MB noted this and said that as part of the pilot of online services, the Practice would consider how urgent prescriptions should be handled. He added that there was already a rota at each surgery, of a nominated staff member tasked with overseeing the handling of online prescription requests, Plan PPG AGM - It was agreed that the AGM should be held after the school holidays in midSeptember. Members of the Group had contributed to a draft recruitment newsletter about the PPG and announcing the AGM. After some discussion it was agreed that the newsletter should also set out how members could contribute to the Practice by listing future initiatives for the PPG. Action: All members – the newsletter would be finalised by the end of June. PPG Report – It was noted that PG would lead on the 2015/16 PPG report. Carers’ Champion MB agreed to pursue the establishment of Carers’ Champions and since the meeting has reported that two staff members have been identified as carers’ champions (one for PW, one for HG). Geoff Morgan would also request the CCG funded training, and MB has asked that PG be involved. PW said he would make a suggestion at the next PCG meeting that each PPG should have a lead person for this topic for reporting to the PCG. Type 2 Together – MB reported that the feedback arrangements in the Practice were now operational. It was noted that PW was not able to attend the Type 2 Together network support meeting due to illness. Dementia MB reported that there was a proposal that reviews of a patient’s dementia care be done through the General Practice in the long term. The funding of this might be an issue however, as more staff resources would be required. Action: PG agreed to pursue this via the PCG next week.
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