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Executive Committee Members: Emilio Ceraudo (EC), Patricia Daniels (PD), John Doland (JD), Doris Halls (DoH), Graham Hardy (GH), David Harper (DaH), Joyce Jarvis (JJ), Nick Martensz (NM), Josephine Powell (JP), Chris Stannard (CS)
L.M. Stockman (LMS) was absent with apologies.
Surgery Representatives: [none]
Fiona McGlashan (FM) was absent with apologies.
The minutes from the meeting of 30 October 2013 were approved. There were no matters arising.
JD presented his annual report:
The major event in the past year has been the awarding of the contract to provide primary health service from maple surgery to Malling Health. Although the Committee did have worries about the future of the PPG, Malling Health were keen for the PPG to continue and to offer input on the issues which concern both patients and staff. For example, we have made numerous suggestions for the new patient leaflet and have discussed the problem of missed appointments at length.
In the past year we have welcomed two new members to the Committee, Graham Hardy and Anthony Mitchell. The Health Walks have gone from strength to strength so thanks to Patricia and the Health Walks team for their efforts which have made the walks such a success.
I would like to thank the Committee for their contributions and in particular David and Lynne for all the hard work they have put in.
In the absence of a surgery representative, DaH read the surgery annual report submitted via email by FM.
JD volunteered to continue as chairman for 2014. DoH volunteered to continue as vice-chairman for 2014. Both were approved by the Committee nem con.
Action: Election of secretary is deferred to next meeting.
Action: Deferred to next meeting, as no surgery representatives were present.
Action: Deferred to next meeting, as no surgery representatives were present.
DaH asked whether the meeting schedule should continue to be the last Wednesday of every month in 2014.
It was agreed that this schedule should continue, with the possible exception of July.
DoH said that she had been contacted by Helen Collins (HC) who runs the Happy Hours club. HC wanted to know whether the PPG receives many complaints about the surgery, as she is getting a lot from Happy Hours members.
PD asked whether HC passes the complaints on to the surgery. CS suggested that she should invite surgery representatives to a Happy Hours meeting.DaH noted that HC had come to the PPG meeting in September 2012. DoH suggested that we should invite her back.
Action: DaH to contact HC to invite her to a future PPG meeting.
JP expressed concern that the maple surgery notices in the Bar Hill News were often hidden away inside the magazine, whilst notices from surgeries in neighbouring villages were given greater prominence.
PD said that the notices from the maple surgery always seemed to get poor placement, and DaH agreed that it was sometimes very hard to find them. He asked whether anyone on the committee knew the editor.
DoH said that she knew the editor.
Action: DoH to talk to the editor to ask whether the maple surgery notices could be given better placement, closer to the front of the magazine.
PD said that the dates for the 2014 Health Walks would be finalised in the next couple of weeks.
She told the meeting that she and JP had been busy preparing a bid for funding to enable the walks to be continued and expanded. It does cost money to run the walks. PD and JP have had to pay for facilities to train walk leaders, for example. To date, no external funding has been sought because South Cambridgeshire is not a deprived area. However, with the greater emphasis on the value of the Health Walks in helping to keep older people active, she felt that it was now appropriate to seek funding.
PD said that she had given a presentation to the NHS Commissioners, and it had been well received. She reported that a training venue has been found in Huntingdon. The venue needs trainers, so PD and JP will use it to train new walk leaders.
DoH asked whether it was planned to increase the number of walks, or to introduce shorter walks.
PD said that the number of walks depended on the availability of walk leaders. She noted that in the three years that the Health Walks have been running in Bar Hill, there has always been a walk leader available to run a scheduled walk. No scheduled walk has ever been cancelled.
PD then asked whether anyone knew where she could borrow a projector for use at a training event on 28 January. She needs a portable projector that can be plugged into a laptop for a Powerpoint presentation.
DaH said that the local school might have one. CS suggested that PD should ask the Acorn Surgery in Huntingdon.
PD said that she would ask the maple surgery.
CS asked how often PD runs training sessions for walk leaders. PD said that this could be several times a year, and that this might justify purchasing a projector if external funding could be obtained.
The meeting adjourned at 7:30 p.m.
The next meeting of the Executive Committee of the PPG will take place at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, 29 January 2014, in the TNT Room at Bar Hill Church. Tea and coffee will be served before the meeting, from 6:00 p.m.
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