BROWN CLEE PATIENT PARTICIPATION GROUP (PPG)

What is the PPG?

All Medical Practices have a statutory duty to establish a Patient Participation Group (PPG) and to engage with it to obtain feedback about the services delivered by the Practice.  Brown Clee Medical Practice (BCMP) set up this PPG over 20 years ago and has supported it consistently. 

The Brown Clee PPG holds four meetings a year, and all registered patients over 18 years are invited to attend.

See the leaflet attached below for information on how you can get involved.

If you have any questions or suggestions, please contact me at any time. Best wishes, Tina Ranson, Chair of Brown Clee PPG. Email browncleeppg@gmail.com or telephone 01584 878707.

Meetings

Meetings will be held in in Ditton Priors Village Hall on the following dates:

• Tuesday 7th January 2025
• Tuesday 1st April 2025
• Tuesday 1st July 2025 - doors open 6.30 (coffee/tea) meeting 7.00 – 8.00 pm
• Tuesday 7th October 2025 – doors open 5.30 and meeting 6.00 – 7.00 pm

All patients are welcome to come to these meetings. To book your seat, or for any more information email browncleeppg@gmail.com or telephone Tina Ranson 01584 878707.

Agendas and Minutes

Attached below.

News

• May 2025 - Spring Bulletin attached below.

• Tuesday 7th January 2025 - Please contact the PPG if:   
  • (a) you want help to use the NHS App
  • (b) you want to donate useful items to the garden project
  • (c) you want to get involved in the development of a grief support network.
  • (d) you are grieving now and need like immediate support.
  • (e) you want to participate in the NHS consultation as part of a group - ask for message to be sent to Linda Jackson
  • You can email tina.ranson@outlook.com or browncleeppg@gmail.com or leave a message at the Surgery reception

• Tuesday 21st May 2024  - Version 2 of the Constitution is attached below. It is re-issued because the wording of the mission statement has been slightly changed. Also attached are a series of diagrams which help to explain elements of the Constitution graphically. These are appendices and do not form part of the Constitution. At the meeting all audience members will be asked to vote for or against accepting the Constitution.   

• March 2024 - Wonderful news! Dr Bassett has asked me to let you all know that he has appointed Dr Wendy Matthews as a Partner GP, with effect from 1st April. Dr Matthews will not have any surgery appointments until after 1st May, as she will be working out her notice period with her current Practice, but she is able to help prepare Brown Clee for the CQC inspection which all newly created Partnerships receive. We look forward to welcoming Dr Matthews in May!

• February 2024 - Period of change at Brown Clee Medical Practice. As some of you may be aware, Brown Clee Medical Practice will shortly be entering a period of change. Please find below a statement from the Integrated Care Board (which includes Shropshire NHS and the Local Authorities of Shropshire and Telford and Wrekin) and the Primary Care Network of which Brown Clee Medical Practice is a member. The Integrated Care Board (ICB) manages health and care provision across Shropshire. The Primary Care Network for South East Shropshire is made up of 9 Medical Practices:  Ironbridge, Much Wenlock, Broseley, Bridgnorth, Highley, Albrighton, Alveley,  Cleobury Mortimer and Brown Clee.  The PCN is providing some additional staff to work in these 9 Practices including Clinical Pharmacists and Mental Health professionals. The attached statement explains how all these bodies are now working together to support Brown Clee Medical Practice through the changes it is currently undergoing. 

• April 2023 - BCMP Community Group Public Statement. 
  • The medium to long term provision of GP services within the Brown Clee Medical Practice area is currently uncertain. Dr Railton has announced her intention to retire from the partnership at the end of 2023 and Dr. Bassett by the end of 2027. There is a known shortage of GP’s wishing to locate to rural communities therefore recruitment to our area to replace them is expected to be difficult. It was proposed by the Partners that a community led buy-out of the premises, removing the need for new partners to buy into the equity, might assist in attracting GP’s to the Practice.
  • To advance this idea, an unincorporated community group has been formed comprising patients of the Practice. A Committee has been established from members of this group and a constitution adopted. The purpose of the Group is as follows: 
  • 1. To support the ongoing provision of the Brown Clee Medical Practice (BCMP).
  • 2. To assess the feasibility, and support the acquisition of, the surgery buildings currently owned by the Brown Clee Medical Practice in Stottesden and Ditton Priors by the community and individuals served by the Practice.
  • 3. To work with the BCMP Partners and Medical Practice, Patient Participation Group (PPG), the NHS and associated bodies and other community groups in support of this purpose.
  • The Group is currently looking at all available options to purchase the Practice premises through community led projects. These may include obtaining grants, community funding, fundraising, loans, and private investments alongside which various legal structures are being considered. More detailed information will be made available to the community as the situation progresses.
  • The Group is seen as a short-term organisation formed to explore the possible options in detail, and it would then be superseded by an incorporated organisation, whether community or privately owned, that would be established in a suitable form to own and manage things in the preferred way for the longer term.
  • Membership of the Brown Clee Medical Practice Community Group is open to anyone over the age of 18 who is a patient of the BCM Practice. Members may be asked to assist the Committee in accordance with their skills and knowledge and present information to the Committee as and when it is relevant. Members can request attendance at a committee meeting where there will be an opportunity to speak. However the Committee will necessarily attend to the business at hand and will not be able to accept Members participation in the formal section of the meeting. All information is to be kept strictly confidential and must not be freely distributed. Only the Committee is authorised to disseminate information. Anyone wishing to become a Member should email bcmpcommunitygroup@btinternet.com