Patient Participation Groups in Sandwell Review

Report - 16 January 2019

This project aimed to ascertain patients’ awareness of their local PPG and to find out if patients are involved in their local PPG and if they have received any information about it.

Healthwatch Sandwell’s work involves ensuring that patient engagement is carried out effectively by health and social care providers and meets statutory requirements. GP services form a significant part of services and relate to many issues HWS receives. PPG’s are the primary mechanism for GPs to engage with patients. Therefore, HWS wanted to see how knowledgeable patients are of their local GP practice’s PPG.

A total of 1309 people participated in this survey. An additional 175 people declined to participate. This was for a variety of reasons including language barriers.

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