Patient Participation Group

The PPG consists of a group of practice staff and patients who have an interest in health and social care issues and who want to get involved in decisions about the range and quality of services provided by the practice.

We would like to know how we can improve our service to you and how you perceive our surgery and staff. 

To help us with this, we have set up a patient participation group. We will ask the members of this representative group some questions from time to time, such as what you think about our opening times or the quality of the care or service you received. We will contact you via email and keep our surveys succinct so it shouldn’t take too much of your time.

We aim to gather around a hundred patients from as broad a spectrum as possible to get a truly representative sample. We need young people, workers, retirees, people with long-term conditions and people from non-British ethnic groups.

If you are interested in joining the group please contact the practice management team for more details.

The group would also 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.

The team at Darwen Healthlink and the PPG (Patient Participation Group) recently hosted their charity fundraiser event Elf Day for the Alzheimer’s  Society.

The Team raised money through fancy dress, tombola, raffle and a local school choir to which all patients were welcome.

Working alongside the PPG the Practice raised a huge £630 pounds for the charity.