Patient Partnership Group  

 

The College has an active Patient Partnership Group (PPG) through which it maintains its links with patients and their concerns. The College thus ensures that the views of patients are taken into account in the development of general practice.

The Group, which comprises general practitioners and lay members advises the College on a range of medical issues and has produced several documents giving guidance.


 

Lay member application

 

The RCGP is currently not recruiting for lay members to join the Patient Partnership Group. However you are welcome to look at the application pack below and send in a completed application form to the RCGP. We will keep your application on file till the next time we recruit and consider your application at that time. Alternatively you can email us at ppg@rcgp.org.uk and ask to be informed when the next round of recruitment takes place.

 


Contact Us

Please contact the PPG if you would like to draw attention to patient issues of national consequence.
 
Patient Partnership Group
Royal College of General Practitioners
1 Bow Churchyard London EC4M 9DQ

 

Group's Terms of Reference

  • to communicate to the College and its Council areas of patient concern with a view to influencing College policy at all levels:
  • to consider how best a consistent, equitable and patient-centred quality of care for all can be achieved; 
  • to encourage and support the role of the College in involving patients in their own care; 
  • to encourage the involvement of patients in their own care; 
  • to encourage the inclusion of patients in the development of health care services at all levels; 
  • to foster relations between patients and their medical advisers on the basis of openness, equity, honesty and individual integrity; 
  • to encourage College faculties to involve patients in all aspects of their activities; 
  • to review regularly the best way for PPG to link with other patient groups within the College; 
  • to review regularly whether or not these terms of reference are being fulfilled and remain relevant 

 

Full terms of reference (revised 2009) small pdf logo main

 

The RCGP Patient Partnership Group (PPG) was first established in 1983. It was the first College to set up a PPG; most other Royal Medical Colleges now have similar groups.

  
 

Patient Participation Groups  

The RCGP Patient Partnership Group is made up of a group of individuals representing patient issues in general practice. This differs from Patient Participation Groups which are groups of patients, usually within a practice, which aim to develop self help and improve their own primary care. These Groups often help to benefit patient care within a practice, for example by arranging transport for elderly or disabled patients for medical appointments or by running self help groups, for example weight watcher sessions.

 

The RCGP PPG has links with other patient organisations, including the National Association of Patient Participation (NAPP), which has an information pack on how to set up a patient partnership group. For further information visit the NAPP website.