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Patient Participation Group

Our Patient Participation Group (PPG) meets to provide a forum for discussion about the practice.

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Patient Participation Group – Chair Vacancy

We are looking for a new Chair for our Patient Participation Group (PPG).

This is a voluntary role open to all patients registered with the practice who are 18 years or older. The Chair will work with the practice team and other patient group members to help improve services and strengthen the voice of patients.

Application deadline: 29th Aeptember 2025.

If you are interested, please use the submission link to apply.

Current Candidate - Anton Fishman

My family and I have been patients at Mayfield Surgery for 40 years, during which time we have had probably four generations of GPs and have appreciated all the support we have received, busy at times when our children were young, less so for quite a while, and more intensely recently with a bit of a health glitch. Being happy with the practice, we have recommended it to friends and neighbours who too have been really positive about their experiences at Mayfield.

Originally a teacher and an educational psychologist I spent most of my career working with commercial and not-for-profit organisations, large and small, and the people running them, to help them manage and lead better. Now retired I have the time and energy to devote to strengthening the relationship between Mayfield Surgery and the patients it serves through my involvement in its Patients Participation Group, something I am greatly looking forward to doing. With Mary-Ellen Field retiring from her long-held and dedicated service as Chair of the PPG I have offered to get more involved in the PPG either as Chair or supporting and working closely with the next Chair. Teamwork, cooperation and involving others have defined the ways of working in the consultancies I have run and they will be the qualities I hope to bring to the PPG and its relationship with the professional and managerial staff at the Surgery.

Chair Resignation and Invitation to Join

We would like to inform our patients that Mary-Ellen has stepped down as Chair of the Mayfield Surgery Patient Participation Group (PPG). We would like to thank her sincerely for her time, commitment, and contribution over the years.

The PPG plays an important role in supporting communication between the practice and its patients, helping to improve services and shape patient experience.

We are now inviting expressions of interest from any registered patients who may wish to take on the role of Chair of the PPG.

If you are interested, please come along to our next PRIME PPG meeting:

See event information and sign up here

This will be a great opportunity to find out more about the role and meet the group.

We look forward to welcoming anyone interested in getting more involved.

A message from the PPG Chair

My name is Mary-Ellen Westwood. My family and I have been patients at Mayfield Surgery for over 25 years. I am the new Chairman of Mayfield's Patient Participation Group. You may not have heard of a PPG. We had an active group pre Covid but weren't able to meet again until after this and are keen to get active again with our fellow patients.

I would like to encourage you to become involved. Our role is to act as a critical friend to the practice. We are part of a larger group of surgeries in our area. Chartfield Surgery, Healthbridge Practice and Tudor Health Centre. Our aim is the represent the diverse views of all out fellow patients and to help our doctors and the rest of the teams give us all the bes possible service.

Looking forward to meeting as many of you as possible very soon.

Mary-Ellen

If you are interested in giving your feedback about local health programmes or services at the surgery, learning about changes in your local services, or participating in health campaigns in your community - we encourage you to join our Patient Participation Group (PPG).

We aim to have a group that is representative of the different views and opinions among our patients. Therefore we welcome new participants of any age, gender or ethnicity.

If you think you might be interested or would like to be updated on the activities and meetings of the PPG, please complete the online form below. This does not mean you have to attend the meetings, but we will keep you up-to-date on any activities and inform you about upcoming meetings so that you can attend if you are available.

We aim to gather around a hundred patients from as broad a spectrum as possible to get a truly representative sample. We need young people, workers, retirees, people with long term conditions and people from non-British ethnic groups.

If you are happy for us to contact you occasionally by email please complete this form.

We will be in touch shortly after we receive your form. Please note that no medical information or questions will be responded to.

The information you supply us will be used lawfully, in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998. The Data Protection Act 1998 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.

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