PARKVIEW SURGERY PRG

Minutes of Meeting on May11th 2017

Chaired by: Trish Cullen

Secretary: Anita Hargreaves

Members Present: Rachael Kilburn, Sharon Taylor, Anita Hargreaves, Emma Goodall, Trish Cullen

Apologies:Maria Bell, Jean Darbyshire, Dorothy Gains, Don Holloway, Don Lowden, Stephen Morris

  1. Welcome and introductions

As there were only 3 members of the PRG present, the meeting went ahead although it was not quorate.

  1. Actions from previous meeting
  • The interim meeting to discuss the Terms of Reference and Mission statement went ahead. (See item 5 on the agenda)
  • The Annual Report is no longer a requirement
  • Rachael has changed the wording online regarding the ordering and collection of prescriptions.
  1. Friends and Family

February 12 extremely likely, 5 likely, 1 unlikely

March5 extremely likely, 3 likely, 1 don’t know

April 9 extremely likely, 3 likely.

The “unlikely” comment, was anonymous, so the practice cannot deal with it as a complaint. There were many positive comments on the responses.

  1. Surgery Updates/ Staff changes
  • Dr Abbass has been replaced by Dr Hussain
  • Haroon, the pharmacist continues to work in the practice, and will be included in the new Prescription Hub (See Item 8 on the Agenda)
  • A new telephone system is to be installed which will include the new option of speaking to someone at the Prescription Hub

5. Terms of Reference and Mission Statement

  • This was deferred to the next meeting as there were insufficient members to finalise the draft put forward by the working group.

6. Update on Actions for 2016/17

  • No further discussion was held as these actions were updated at the last meeting.

7. Proposed actions for 2017/18

The following ideas were discussed to be finalised by the full PRG group at the next meeting. Virtual members will be asked to comment on these ideas too.

  • Making the surgery a “Safe Place”
  • Walking group? Activity group?
  • Moving forward with the focus on Diabetes . The practice is establishing a “Pre-diabetic register”. There is a national programme with a 12 week education course.

8. Pharmacy Prescribing Hub

This is a new initiative to create a hub which will be based at Healds Road Surgery. Rachael is leading the set up and funding has been secured from NHS England. The hub will be staffed from several different surgeries and will carry out medication reviews, prescription requests etc. Park View will be joining in the next few weeks. This is a pilot scheme for policies and practices to be established.

9. AOB

  • Trish is standing down as Chair, as she feels she cannot devote enough time to the role. We therefore need a volunteer/ nominee to chair the meetings.
  • Trish and done an excellent job as Chair and the group would like to thank her very much for all her work. She will remain in the PRG.
  • Anita also expressed a wish to step down as Secretary but will continue for the time being. The roles of Chair and Secretary are urgently in need of being clarified at the next meeting.
  • Anita is to send out a questionnaire to all members, in order to try and increase member attendance at the meetings or responses from the online members.

10. Time and date of next meeting

This will be held in September but the actual time and date will be decided after responses from members, in the hope of increasing attendance

Actions for next meeting

  • Anita to devise a questionnaire for all members, to determine whether the timing of meetings could be altered.
  • Rachael to contact Anita with amendments to Terms of Reference etc.