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Executive Committee Members: Patricia Daniels (PD), John Doland (JD), Doris Halls (DoH), Graham Hardy (GH), Joyce Jarvis (JJ), Josephine Powell (JP), L.M. Stockman (LMS)
Emilio Ceraudo (EC), Anthony Mitchell (AM), David Harper (DaH), Nick Martensz (NM) and Chris Stannard (CS) were absent with apologies.
Surgery Representatives: Fiona McGlashan (FM)
Lesley Davis (LD) was absent with apologies.
The minutes from the meeting of 23 July 2014 were approved and accepted. It was noted that the public use defibrillator had not yet been put in place.
Dr Irwin is due to start her maternity leave on 19 September. Her absence will be covered by Dr Lewis Barnes and Dr Kurt von Bussmann plus a nurse prescriber. Dr Alyson Wheeler expects to work all day Thursday and Friday morning. LMS asked if the electronic questionnaire was still available, and was told it was, and invited to use it. This was replacing the written GP survey.
DNA (did not attend) was showing a considerable improvement, down from 103 to 67 in the last month. A suggestion was made to put a notice up in surgery to praise those who did attend.
There had been slight damage in the surgery from the recent floods.
The current boiler has been replaced.
LMS asked how to get onto the electronic prescription service system; FM explained that a form was available from the pharmacy in Tesco, to be completed and returned to Tesco Pharmacy who will do the rest. This applies to whichever pharmacy you wish to nominate. It was the responsibility of individual surgeries to offer this service and Maple Surgery, being the second or third to do this in our area, would be 'going live' on 17 November 2014.
Shahin Hussain (SH) is a community podiatrist working for the Cambridgeshire Community Services. JP has corresponded with him and he has offered to come along to a PPG meeting and explain the role of podiatry and foot health care. This offer was accepted by the members and JP will arrange this for the next meeting. It was agreed to put his presentation of approximately 20 minutes first on the agenda so as not to delay him.
An organisation called Feet Focus was asked about, this being a self referral group. FM suggested that we could ask SH on his visit.LMS suggested any questions for SH could be written in advance of his visit.
Action: JP to arrange and confirm with SH.
There being no other business, JD thanked members for attending and the meeting closed at 1:40 p.m.
The next meeting of the Executive Committee of the PPG will take place at 6:30 p.m. on Wednesday, 24 September 2014, in the TNT Room at Bar Hill Church. Refreshments will be available before the meeting.
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