Your voice. Your Community. Your practice.
Our Patient Participation Group (PPG) brings together patients who want to help shape the way Culverhay Surgery delivers care. It’s a simple but powerful idea: when patients and the practice work together, services improve for everyone.
You don’t need any special experience to get involved, just an interest in helping us understand what matters most to you and our wider community.
What does the PPG do?
The Patient Participation Group (PPG) is a collection of patients registered at Culverhay Surgery who have an interest in our provided services. The aim of the PPG is to represent patients’ views and cross barriers, embrace diversity and work in partnership with the practice to improve common understanding.
The PPG:
- Represents the views, needs and experiences of our patients
- Works in partnership with the practice to improve services
- Helps us understand barriers to care and supports inclusive decision‑making
- Acts as a “sounding board” for new ideas and changes
- Encourages communication between patients and the practice team
Our goal is to ensure every patient has a voice – across ages, backgrounds, cultures and life experiences.
Are you interested in finding out more about Culverhay Surgery? Would you like to influence the development of its services?
Join our Virtual PPG – Quick, easy, and flexible
Want to have your say but don’t have time to attend meetings? Our Virtual PPG is perfect for you.
- No meetings to attend
- No time commitment
- Just occasional emails or short questionnaires asking for your views
- Share feedback at a time convenient for you
By joining, you help us understand what’s important to patients like you. Your input directly influences how we develop and improve our services.
We want to hear from everyone
To make sure our PPG truly reflects our community, we welcome patients from all backgrounds, including:
- Young people
- Working adults
- Retirees
- Carers
- People with long‑term conditions
- Patients from diverse ethnic backgrounds
Your perspective matters – your experiences help shape a better, more inclusive practice.
Express your interest by completing the short form below. All we need is your email address.
Prefer face‑to‑face involvement?
We also hold in‑person PPG meetings roughly once a quarter for our core PPG. Currently, our core group membership is full. If you are interested in getting involved, please consider expressing interest for our virtual group.
Why join the PPG?
Benefits for patients:
- Better communication between patients and the practice
- A direct way to share ideas and influence improvements
- A chance to understand how healthcare decisions are made
- An opportunity to help shape services for the whole community
What the PPG is not:
It is not a forum for individual complaints or medical queries.
Join our Patient Participation Group – Virtual group spaces available.
All registered patients are able to join our Patient Participation Group. People of all genders, ages, ethnicities, and those with health conditions and disabilities are encouraged to join.
Members should as far as possible, be representative of the surgery population.
To join:
- fill out a join our Patient Participation Group form
- Phone us on 01453 843893 (Wotton), 01453 810228 (Berkeley), 01452 740213 (Frampton).
Our PPG is a member of the National Association of Patient Participation Groups.
We will be in touch shortly after we receive your form. Please note that no medical information or questions will be responded to.