Riverside Surgery has a Patient Participation Group (PPG), which meets approximately once every quarter. The group is made up of patients, doctors and staff and its aims are as follows:

1. To be an advisory group aimed at improving communication between the practice and its patients.
2. To improve cooperation and collaboration.
3. Influence practice policy.
4. Act as a representative group to influence the local provision of health and social care.
5. To provide innovative and new ideas.
6. Provide feedback.
7. Communicate and inform.
8. Health education.

For further information please contact Michelle Slimm, Business Manager.

The group would like to contact patients on occasion by email and/or text so that they can obtain the views of the widest group of patients possible. We would like to obtain your email address and mobile phone number to do this. Please complete the Patient Contact Form to provide your consent for this.