Woosehill Surgery

Woosehill Medical Centre Minutes of Patients Forum

Wednesday 12 October 2011

Declaration of Any Other Business

Appointment of Forum Chairperson
It was agreed that KC would continue in the role and that meetings would take place as required.

Health Network News - PMcN
To be discussed under Any Other Business

Minutes of meeting held on 29 September 2010

The Minutes of the meeting held on 29th September 2010 were agreed as correct and signed by KC.

Matters Arising from Previous Meeting

Surgery Boundary Changes
The surgery now had 11,500 patients and patients had become aware of the new boundary.

Fund-raising for Defibrillator
As we previously minuted, the surgery had now purchased a defibrillator.

Patient Survey Results

CA reported that the results showed an improvement since the previous survey and MCL said he had been pleased at the result.

A new practice information booklet was now available and was given to all new patients. It included information about the out of hours service and Saturday mornings surgeries.

CA invited members of the Patient's Forum to visit the surgery to see how reception works.

CT asked if the consortium would eventually have a common patients' questionnaire. MCL confirmed that the practices would have to work together and analyse the results.

Practice News and Updates

MCL reported that two new doctors, Teresa Harper salaried GP and Clare Tong, Maternity Locum had joined the surgery and filled most of the sessions remaining after Helen Warwick moved to Parkside Practice and Gehana De Silva had taken maternity leave.

Two flu vaccination sessions had been held and over 1,100 patients had been vaccinated. Another session would take place on Saturday 29th October.

Clinical Commissioning Group

MCL was the surgery's representative on this committee and reported that it was a complicated organisation which consisted of all the Wokingham practices, from Wargrave across to Shinfield and Swallowfield. Mainly due to the age of the patients in the area and Wokingham being considered an affluent area, funding was one of the lowest in the country.

MCL explained what that would mean to the Practice and reported that there would be a significantly lower budget for, for example, physiotherapy, referrals and that the practice would have to adhere to that budget, which would have a big impact on activity and was concerning.

KC felt that the relationship between the practice and the consortium was very important.

Any Other Business and Date of Next Meeting

Graffiti
CA confirmed that there was no longer a problem with graffiti

Health Network News - PMcN
PMcN reported that Links had now been replaced by Healthwatch and that she had attended a seminar regarding care for the elderly.

Patients' Forum Sub Committee
GJ suggested that it would be helpful to understand the patients' forum terms of reference and suggested that a sub committee should be formed. PMcN supported the move and it was agreed that a meeting would take place on 30th November to bring forward ideas. Suggestions would also be welcomed from practice members to provide guidance as to how the group could best support the practice and patients.

Date of Next Meeting
A meeting of the sub committee would take place at 7.00pm on Wednesday 30 November 2011 when proposals for terms of reference would be discussed.

No further date had been decided for a Forum meeting until that meeting had taken place.