What it is like to be an NHS volunteer
As an NHS volunteer, you get to make a positive contribution to the experience of patients and their families.
There are many reasons why you may decide to volunteer within the NHS.
You may find it rewarding to do something for the benefit of your local community. It will give you a sense of accomplishment and a positive outlook on life. You will be doing something worthwhile and meaningful to you.
Whether you are studying or reconsidering your career, volunteering can help you make a decision on your future goals.
Whatever your reason, you will get support from dedicated teams who welcome volunteers from all walks of life and backgrounds.
NHS Volunteering - Homepage (england.nhs.uk)
Moorland Medical Centre Summer Newsletter 2024What's on Locally Activities October 2024
People's Panel
Join the Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent People's Panel. Help inform health and care services in your local area, by taking part in several short online surveys throughout the year.
Visit our website on People's Panel - Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent, Integrated Care Board (icb.nhs.uk)
We are inviting members of the public to play an active role in helping to improve these services, for the benefit of everyone.
Wherever you live in Staffordshire or Stoke-on-Trent and whatever your background, your experiences are important to us and can help to make a difference to health and care services in your local area.
This isn’t a tick-box exercise – it’s borne out of a genuine desire to put local people at the heart of everything the Integrated Care Board does.
Your views really do matter. As a member of the panel, we will:
Invite you to tell us your views about services you are interested in through regular short online surveys.
Enter you into a prize draw with the chance of winning one of two £50 love2shop vouchers for each survey you take part in.
Send you a newsletter twice a year – to provide updates about the panel, explain how your comments have been used to shape healthcare locally and to share news about health care providers in Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent.
Media Support – Volunteer
We are looking to recruit one or two new members from patients with experience of writing bulletins and news items for the media and who have some experience of social media.
The role will involve helping the group ensure that all patients are given early and accurate information about services at the Practice and more widely within the Primary Care Network.
Do you have such experience and want to join a very active voluntary group which has been working tirelessly for many years to improve the patient experience for all patients in the Practice.
CAN YOU HELP – AND MAKE A CONTRIBUTION
TO THE GROUP?
If so please contact Bas Pickering, Secretary Patient Participation Group to arrange a discussion about the role. bas.pickering @yahoo.com
Patient Participation Group Seeking New Members
We are seeking new members to join the Patient Participation Group. Do you feel you would like to shape and improve your healthcare? The PPG is made up of patients like you who have a common goal to help improve the services offered in your practice and the wider community. It is a voluntary group.
Please email the practice on moorland.med@nhs.net or call into the practice for an application form if you are interested in joining the PPG.
Patient Participation Group Leaflet
GP Patient Survey
The GP Patient Survey assesses patients’ experience of healthcare services provided by GP practices, including experience of access, making appointments, the quality of care received from healthcare professionals, patient health and experience of NHS services when their GP practice was closed. The survey also includes a number of questions assessing patients’ experience of NHS dental services.
The results of the survey are published by Ipsos on behalf of NHS England on the GP Patient Survey website.
Care and Support Directory 2022
With the recently published new edition of the City of Stoke-on-Trent incorporating Staffordshire Care and Support Directory 2022, we wanted to share the link to our online e-book version below;
https://www.carechoices.co.uk/publication/stoke-on-trent-care-services-directory/
What is the role of the Patient Participation Group (PPG)?
The PPG are a group of patients who meet, together with health professionals to ensure that patients are given a ‘voice’ within the GP practice. It is the PPG’s responsibility is to ensure that plans, services and activities respond to patient’s priorities and needs. The PPG does not discuss any patient’s personal health details.
Patient Participation Group Leaflet
Where and when do we meet?
The meetings take place at Moorland Medical Centre on a Tuesday morning, on ten occasions per year. Subgroups formed from a few PPG members meet more frequently when working on specific projects.
Examples of work completed to date
- Completing annual patient surveys
- Planning health awareness weeks, held at the surgery which included co-ordinating a range of health specialists and speakers
- Assisting in obtaining patient feedback to aid the planning of health services
- Improving access for ambulances visiting the surgery via new road markings
Surgery Refurbishment
Getting involved.
Would you like to join the Moorland Medical Centre PPG?
Join us as an active volunteer and use your personal experience to contribute to the planning of local healthcare services. Every member’s contribution is valued and appreciated. It is essential that all information is kept strictly confidential, you would therefore be required to sign a confidentiality agreement prior to starting.
Joining the PPG
Email us at: moorland.med@staffs.nhs.uk
Telephone us on 01538 399008
Or
Pop in to the practice and request a contact form, please return it to the practice when you have completed it.
Visit the Moorland Medical Centre website atwww.moorlandmedicalcentre.co.uk and follow the links.
If you are happy for us to contact you occasionally by email please click the link below to open the sign-up form and complete all the fields.
Complete the Patient Group Sign-up Form Online
If you prefer, you can download the sign up form as a pdf document, print it out, complete it and return it to the practice.
Download the pdf version of our sign up form
We will be in touch shortly after we receive your form. Please note that no medical information or questions will be responded to.
Many thanks for your assistance
information you supply us will be used lawfully, in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998. The Data Protection Act 1998 gives you the right to know what information is held about you and sets out rules to make sure that this information is handled properly.