Patient Participation Group

Chalgrove & Watlington Surgeries has a Patient Participation Group (PPG) who work to discuss the services on offer at the Surgeries and how improvements can benefit patients and the practice. The NHS requires every practice to have a PPG and your PPG meets regularly with the manager and is in contact with the Surgery team. The PPG is open to all patients at the Surgery who are over 16 years of age.

Contact the PPG

If you have a question that you wish to raise about any part of the Surgery’s service, or about the PPG, please email: [email protected]

This email address is for queries that relate to the PPG and not for clinical matters relating to appointments, medical treatment, prescriptions etc. However, we are interested in your views on healthcare provision at the Surgery.

PPG meetings and communication

  • PPG meetings take place and these include PPG steering group meetings (several times a year), talks by members of the Surgery team and from external speakers to patients.
  • The PPG is also represented on the South Oxfordshire Patient Alliance (SOPA). SOPA includes 20 PPGs. At these meetings information is exchanged between the PPGs as to how their Practices and PPGs operate and representatives are briefed by the Clinical Lead on health and social care matters affecting patients in the county. Healthwatch Oxfordshire is also represented. Information from SOPA meetings is communicated to our PPG members. 
  • The PPG provide input to editorial that is submitted on a monthly basis to local publications, The Watlington Times and The Link, for their Surgery/healthcare pages.
What is the Virtual PPG?

Don’t have time to come to meetings?

Do you have ideas about how to improve the Practice?

Then join our ‘Virtual Patient Participation Group’.

We realise that many patients are unable to attend meetings due to pressure from work, family or studies, but may want to have a say in what we do. We need – and value – the input from all patients, especially those who are busy, or with children, or who care for someone. If you join our ‘virtual group’ we will keep in touch by email, or telephone, and you can still play an important role in our PPG.

Join our Patient Participation Group

If you wish to participate please contact the Practice or complete the online form by clicking on the button shown below.

Sign up for the Patient Participation Group

OR: if you prefer, you can download the sign-up form below, print it out, fill it in, and post it to the Practice, put it through the letterbox, or hand it to a Receptionist.

Download the pdf version of our sign up form

Download the pdf version of our Statement of Intent

We aim to acknowledge your request within a few days.

Please note that the PPG cannot become involved in matters of a specifically medical or clinical nature.

Non-urgent advice: Date of next Patient Participation Group meeting

Date(s) to be announced

Healthwatch Oxfordshire

Healthwatch Oxfordshire is an independent health and social care watchdog. They collect patient opinions and experiences to inform and influence those who run our local health and social care services. Their website is: Healthwatch Oxfordshire

The National Association of Patient Participation

The national association for patient participation aims to promote the role and benefits of PPGs to patients, the public and health professionals, to create more understanding of the value of true patient participation also to promote the support available from N.A.P.P.

The 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 to make sure that this information is handled properly.