Patient Participation Group (PPG)
The SMG Patient Participation Group work voluntarily to provide a two-way communication between patients and staff and supports the practice in improving the service provided to patients. We aim to represent patient views and provide the means for patients to make positive constructive suggestions about the practice.
The PPG group consists of registered patients, Operations Manager and a GP. The group meet to suggest positive ideas and voice concerns usually every two months in the evening at one of our surgeries.
The aim of our PPG is to provide the following:
- Provide an opportunity for patients to make positive and constructive suggestions/ideas about the practice
- Work positively to help identify any problems and engage with the practice to seek solutions.
- Liaise with the practice to provide practical support and to help patients take more responsibility for their own health.
- Help the practice to deliver change.
- Support the practice in its aim for excellence.
Swan Medical Group PPG Meeting Summary
Please click the link below for the most recent meeting summary.
In our aim to educate patients and develop self-help the PPG arrange health and awareness events once or twice a year, and to date we have covered:
- Men’s health
- Women’s health
- Dementia
- Carers support
- Child/baby health
- Stroke awareness
- Heart health
- Diabetes
- Asthma, Eczema and Hay fever
Current Swan Medical Group PPG members (2025):
Peter Agnew (Liphook Village)
Brian Bartholomew (Swan Petersfield)
Ruth Bonner (Swan Petersfield)
Frances Dowty (Liss Hillbrow Surgery)
David Ford (Swan Petersfield)
Jenny Hance (Liss Hillbrow Surgery)
Ros Humphreys (Riverside Surgery)
Ella de Jongh (Swan Petersfield)
Jenny de Jongh (Swan Petersfield)
Julia Maughan (Liss Hillbrow Surgery)
Sonia Meredith (Liphook Village)
Ray Morton (Riverside Surgery)
Mike Peters (Swan Petersfield)
David Snelson (Swan Petersfield) Chair
Ann Tremain (Liphook Village)
Andrea Venn (Swan Petersfield) Minutes secretary
You can now contact the PPG Chairperson via email, please do not use this for any urgent queries, response time will be up to 5 working days: hiowicb-hsi.smgppgchair@nhs.
Below are copies of PPG correspondence with the Hospital Trust regarding the proposed closure of Rowans Ward at Petersfield Hospital:
