Ivy Medical Group (IMG) Patient Participation Group (PPG) Meeting Minutes for the 24 November 2022.

24 November 2022 Meeting Minutes

Attendees and Apologies.

ENC. 1: Attendees, members and apologies

All present signed the code of conduct for the PPG meeting

In attendance and observing:

Jane Hildreth, Newark & Sherwood Council for Voluntary Services

Paddy Tipping, Non-Executive Director, Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust

Code of conduct signed

Action: All to note

Chair

Ingrid Glover and Tracy Madge

Action: All to note

Minute taker

Tracy Madge

The meeting was audio recorded and can be made available to those who could not attend the meeting.

Audio recording of the meeting available on request

Action: All to note

Apologies

See ENC. 1 ENC. 1: Attendees, members and apologies

Action: All to note

Conflicts of interest

Steve Scott related to staff who work at IMG

Action: All to note

Minutes from the last meeting

N/A first meeting of revamped PPG

Standing agenda item will be to agree and sign off

Action: All to note

Matters arising not on the agenda

N/A as above

Action: All to note

PPG Vision and Code of Conduct

ENC. 2: Presented and supported.

The PPG will focus on future developments that support the practice and not on complaints.

Practice staff agreed to provide an overview of complaint themes at each PPG meeting and seek advice where necessary

Vision and code of conduct approved.

Action: All to note

Summary of complaints at every PPG

Action: Practice by 02-03-23

Terms of reference (TOR)

ENC. 3: issued for consideration.

· A core membership of 12 people was approved. All other patients are welcome to attend.

· Membership needs to reflect the patient demographic. Agreed that all equality strands should be represented if possible.

· Steve Scott and Ingrid Glover were nominated as co-Chairs and this was supported by attendees

· Tracey Andersen was nominated as secretary and this was supported by attendees

1. Any comments or changes to the TOR be sent to Tracy Madge. If none received these will be signed off as approved on 12-12-22

Action: All by 09-12-22

2. Confirmation of the PPG co-Chairs and secretary

Action: All to Note

Members contacts

ENC. 1: Attendees, members and apologies

All agreed that emails could be shared openly to support communications with members. Mobile numbers will be removed

Amend member contact list and share with members

Action: Tracy Madge by 02-02-22

Update on the listening exercise

ENC. 4: Update on listening exercise

Slides presented. More work is required to ensure working age and under 18 have their views captured. Approximately 160 people have fed back so far with an average age of 67.

Engagement with other age groups will be collated and presented in March 2023

1. Outputs from the listening exercise to date to be published on the website.

Action: Practice staff by 02-02-22

2. Engagement with under 65s to be completed by March 2023

Action: Tracy Madge, James Hall by 01-03-23

Patient Partner for Communication

Dan Howarth, Patient Partner (see below), provided a video update.

The practice agreed to identify all patients who prefer postal communications

1. Upload video with PPG minutes

Action: Practice by 02-12-22

2. Identify patients for postal service

Action: Practice by 31-03-23

Practice update

ENC. 5: Practice Update

The practice informed the PPG of new staff.

Lowdham closure was discussed and a FAQ has been published and posted out. This will be updated as necessary.

Members asked for roles of staff to be explained and for photos of the team to go on notice boards/website

Patient Partners were confirmed as:

· Dan is a Patient Partner who is a local resident at our Learning Disability home in Burton Joyce. Dan is regularly updating our notice boards and helping us with posting key messages to those who are housebound or cannot use technology.

· James Hall is our Patient Partner for younger people engagement. James runs an adult football team and has a keen interest in younger people’s health. James is working with sixth forms to understand the needs of us under 18s so we can plan services with them and for them.

· Lindsay Hall is our Patient Partner supporting us with end-of-life care. Lindsay is a clinical nurse specialist in palliative care and end of life care at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust. Together with Dr Baker and Nottinghamshire Hospice we are working to ensure our patients and carers receive the best care possible at the end of their life.

· Bob Barrett is our Patient Partner leading on Health Promotion. This will help signpost patients to information for self-care and how to navigate the NHS

· Tracy Madge is our Patient Partner supporting us with our strategy and new premises business case. Tracy is a retired nurse who worked at director level across the NHS.

1. Update website with new staff and include photos of all the team

2. Provide role description on website and notice boards

Action: Practice by 09-12-22

3. Under 18, End of Life and Health Promotion Plans to be presented at March PPG

Action: James Hall, Bob Barrett and Lindsay Hall by 02-03-23

Group discussion

Outputs:

· Patients over a certain age have expectation of the practice that may not be able to be met e.g. first choice of face to face appointments rather than a phone call

· How will electronic patient prescribing (EPS) be introduced, what information will be provided for patients

· Membership must be inclusive and representative

· New staff roles need to be communicated e.g. advanced clinical practitioners

· Patients may want to attend the PPG as patients not as ‘experts’ or ‘leads’

· Communication methods need to be tailored

1. All patients can attend the PPG but a core of 12 members will be in place (see below)

Action: All to note ENC. 1

2. EPS to be communicated to patients

Action: Practice by 12-12-22

3. Roles of staff and photos to be on website and notice boards

Action: Practice by 12-12-22

4. Communicate messages to all patients and PPG via IMG web access/notice boards/letter

Action: Practice and Secretary by 02-02-23

PPG Work Plan 2022-2023

ENC. 6: PPG work plan

Issued for consideration

Any comments or changes to be sent to Tracy Madge. If none received this will be signed off as approved on 12-12-22

Action: All by 09-12-22

Communication

PPG members are key to communication.

The practice agreed to enable PPG chairs and secretary to have access to the PPG area on the IMG website.

The secretary and chairs will keep the site updated and share on social media.

Sally Smith agreed to share with church community and PPG to ensure Dan Howarth has paper copies for posting and notice boards

1. Practice to enable editor rights to PPG page on website

Action: Practice by 02-12-22

2. Keep PPG web page updated and share to social media. Share with Dan Howarth and Sally Smith

Action: PPG chairs/secretary monthly

Core members

The following members will form the core of the PPG

1. Ingrid Glover – Co-Chair

2. Steve Scott – Co-Chair representing working age

3. Tracey Andersen – Secretary representing working age

4. Dan Howarth, Patient Partner for communication and representing Learning Disability community

5. Brandon Lee – Sixth former, Southwell School, representing young people

6. Lindsay Hall – representing working age and support for end of life care

7. Bob Barrett – supporting health promotion

8. Tracy Madge – supporting premises and strategy (only until March 2023)

9. James Hall – representing working age and younger people

10. David Morley – supporting the PPG with patient views

11. Liz Breeze - supporting the PPG with patient views

12. TBC

As more patients come forward the above can be changed to ensure membership can reflect the demographics and allow patients unable to attend the meeting to come forward.

Core membership agreed. All patients welcome to attend all PPG meetings.

Core members from other patients to be considered. Patients to contact Tracy Madge if they wish to be a core member by 12-12-22

Action: All PPG members by 12-12-22

Next meeting

Thursday 2 March 2023. Venue and time TBC

Agree venue and time

Action: Co-chairs & Secretary by 02-02-22

Enclosures

24 November 2022 Meeting Minutes

ENC 1: Attendees, members and apologies

ENC 2: PPG Vision and Code of Conduct

ENC 3: Terms of Reference

ENC 4: Listening exercise to date summary

ENC 5: Practice update

ENC 6: PPG Work Plan

Notes of a Meeting of the Ivy Medical Group Management Team and the Co–Chairs of the Patient Participation Group

Virtual Meeting by Team Windows

Tuesday 9th March 2021

Attendance

PPG Co-Chair

PPG Co-Chair

Dr Panesar GP, Ivy Medical Group

Melanie Maddock Practice Manager

Victoria Hann Deputy Practice Manager

1. Welcome

The PPG Co-Chair gave a warm welcome and introduction to the Practice Manager and the Deputy Practice Manager.

2. Covid Vaccination Update

Dr Panesar explained that the Vaccination Programme is being run by the NHS Locality Team and this included the need for Home Visits for patients who are unable to get to any of the Vaccination Centres. Details about the programme and how to apply are available on the Locality Team website or by phoning 119. He understood the PPGs concern that patients attempts to get through on the phone were often unsuccessful and undertook to pass this on to the Team to see whether access could be improved.

The practice have started to monitor which practice patients have had the first vaccine and are pleased to find that less than 100 of patients over 65 have not yet been vaccinated.

3. Communication

The meeting recognised the need to keep patients informed of developments in these difficult times and discussed how this might best be achieved.

It was agreed to draw up a newsletter which could be made available on the practice website and village Facebook pages. In addition, the village pharmacies would be approached to explore the possibility of issuing it alongside patients’ medication, both in the pharmacy and when delivered, in order to reach patients who do not have access to on-line facilities.

4. Patients Concerns

Dr Panesar accepted that regular activities, such as shingles, pneumonia and other vaccines together with well person checks had been paused in order to cope with the volume of work arising in dealing with the pandemic, but it was hoped that it will be possible to bring these back again very soon though those overdue will need to be spread over a period. Coping with the Covid menace had inevitably meant that some things had to be set aside.

The surgery clinical staff and practice staff have also been victims of the Covid epidemic and, regrettably, at one time appointments had to be cancelled at short notice. By the use of telephone reviews, the practice tried to have contact with as many patients as was possible. All the clinicians are skilled in the use of telephone reviews and video links. Therefore, the use of such calls has been explored. Lambley Lane surgery has just introduced the use of Microsoft Teams to reach patients. Anyone with an urgent need to see a doctor is always seen that day.

The provision of blood test results for patients to assist private consultations raises difficult issues and the practice cannot provide the practitioner direct. However the practice is willing to meet patients half-way by making a copy of the blood test available at reception.

Because of the high number of Covid hospital admissions, many hospital staff are diverted to other hospital activities, the result of which is that referrals and

enquiries from GP practices may take longer to get a reply. Hopefully, as the number of hospital admissions fall, things may return to normal.

5. Any Other Business

Work is continuing to achieve improvement in telephone access to the surgeries. The practice knows the system that is wanted, but this cannot be installed until contract issues with the present suppliers have been resolved.

The provision of notice boards for PPG news at each surgery site will be established.

Ivy

Covid booster vaccinations

~ 2 months ago

09 October 2022