Latest Meeting Minutes: 10/03/2025

Attendees: Dr An Poelvoorde (GP), Kajal Shah (Practice Manager), Ruth dar (PPG Member), David Scanlon (PPG Member), Louise Sless (PPG Member), Lurleen Johnson (PPG Member), Danica Stefanovic (PPG Member), Neil Taub (PPG Member).

Minutes from the last meeting

• No actions from the last meeting.

North London PPG Meeting

• PPG member Ruth Dar attended the North London PPG Meeting where she took notes for us.  She made some points from the meeting to discuss:
• 30 people showed up.
• A survey was completed and only 4% replied to the survey.
• The presentation showed us that we spend around 7 million on healthcare.
• 13 million GP appointments since April 24- this is a increase of 60%.
• The basis of the meeting was to improve patient access.
• Dicussion around digitalisation of a GP Surgery and triaging appointments.  Members discussed the idea of NHS having a centralised appointment service similar to NHS 111- this is the aim NHS are going for.  Members felt that this is not appropriate and Dr An and Kajal agreed that this is not the way forward.

GP Registrar

• We have our first GP Registrar at Staverton Surgery and her name is Shams Abdalla.  She will be here until August 2025.  She will be seeing patients for condtions.

Pharmacy First

• This a government programme that has been introduced to improve access for patients and reduce appointments with the GP.  There are a lot of pharmacies that have signed up the Pharmacy First and you can go to any pharmacy in any area for this.  They will see patients without a referral from the GP for minor aliments such as a urine infection.  They can also prescribe medication.  This will help reduce GP appointments, so they GP’s can focus on chronic problems more.
• You may have staff directing you to Pharmacy First more.

New Pharmacist

• We will be changing our pharmacist at the surgery.  The new pharmacist will also be working from home 5 days a week and it will be a similar service to what we have now.  
• Discussion around medication reviews- they will be on the telephone.
• Queries about patients not getting a medication review on time, and then they will not get the medication- Dr An has assured that we will not refuse medication if it is needed and we will give enough until the medication review.

New Receptionist

• There will be a new receptionist starting at Staverton surgery.  She will be starting on the 1st April and her name is Rana.

EDEC Project

• Staverton Surgery had a EDEC project for Cancer Awarness across the PCN.  It was an online event for both men and women on prostate cancer.  It was very successful and very informative.  We will be doing another event soon on a different cancer.

A.O.B.

• No other business.

Next Meeting: Monday 2nd June 2025