WINDHILL GREEN MEDICAL PRACTICE
Patient Participation Group
Minutes from Meeting held on 10 August 2017
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WELCOME
Val Orrell (VO) welcomed all to the meeting. Introductions were made. VO gave details of
the topics to be covered at today’s meeting and introduced the guest speakers Dr Mike Smye who will give a presentation on Dementia, Jenni Finn from Bradford Heart Support Group and Arooje Ashgar of the Alcohol Support Team.
SURGERY NEWS
GP Registrars
Dr K Kaur, trainee GP registrar has completed 12 months training and has now left the practice.
Dr A Akbar, trainee GP registrar will be joining the practice for 12 months
Changes to Saturday Morning Surgery
The Saturday morning surgery at Windhill is for booked appointments only. No extraemergency or walk-in appointments will be available. Once all the appointments are booked patients will be directed to telephone 111 to access the Out of Hours Service. The telephones will be transferred to the 111 service as soon as the appointments have been filled. This may mean you are unable to telephone the surgery at all on a Saturday morning. However we are open for you to pick up prescriptions or letters.
Extended Access Services.
Extended access is a new servicebeing rolled out across Bradford over the next 18 months. Patients registered with GP practices in Bradford will be able to access primary care services (GP practices) outside of normal surgery hours. The service will operate from a small number of locations (hubs) across the area. Patients may need to travel a bit further to use extended access services. The CCG are working withpatients and the public to understand where the best locations for this service will be. The extended access service will offer appointments with GPs (this may not be your usual GP), physiotherapists, welfare and benefits advice, weight management, healthy eating and community activity sessions.
The CCG will be developing this service over the next 18 months. From December 2017 some weekend appointments will be on offer from the Westbourne Green Hub. Plans are in place to open a second hub in April 2018 and at least one further hub in October 2018. By
October 2018 all patients across Bradford will have access to extended access services.
DEMENTIA - DR MICHEL SMYE
Dr Smye gave a PowerPoint presentation on dementia, the presentation covered:
What is dementia
What are the symptoms
What causes dementia
Who gets dementia
Who do we diagnose dementia
How do we treat dementia
Can we prevent dementia
Clink on the following link to view presentation:
F:\Data\Shared\PBE Presentations\past PBEs\Dementia - PPG 10.08.17.pptx .
The group thanked Dr Smye for his time and very interesting presentation.
BRADFORD HEART SUPPORT GROUP – JENNI FINN
Bradford Heart Support Group was founded by a group of medical experts in 1961, to find the causes for heart problems, diagnose them and prevent them from other diseases. Jenni explained her mother was a heart patient at BRI and she accompanied her to meetings with Dr Geoff Morrison, Consultant Cardiologist which led to him asking whether she would work part time to set up and co-ordinate a cardiac rehabilitation programme. This involved creating a team of clinicians, physiotherapists, dieticians, cardiac nurses and pharmacists and putting together a 12 week programme where they could explain to patients what had happened to them and outline what they should and should not do and advice about safe exercise, healthy eating, medication and potential side effects. Because of the success of the programme Jenni has also set up exercise classes and a weekly swimming group a support group for patients/carers.
Jenni shared with the group the Bradford Heart Support Group Programme for 2017. Lifetime membership fee for 2017 is single £15 and double/couple £25. Please ring Josie Griffin 01274 284932 if you would like to join their friendly group.
The Keep Moving classes with Jenni Finn (telephone 01274 835234 mobile 0747 5632311) for over 55’s low impact circuit, exercise to music are held on
Monday - 10.30 – 11.30 am at Victoria Hall, Queensbury
Wednesday -11.15 – 12.15 pm at Shipley Pool Studio and
1.0 – 2.30 pm at Bangladeshi Community Centre, Keighly
Thursday - 11.45 – 12.45 pm at Shipley Pool Studio
If you want to improve your fitness, increase your mobility you are welcome to go along and join the above friendly sessions.
The group thanked Jenni for her time, interesting talk and information on The Heart Support Group and Keep Moving Classes.
PRIMARY CARE ALCOHOL SERVICE - AROOJE ASHGAR
Arooje from the Alcohol Support Team gave a brief outline of the Alcohol Service and her role. The Service provides advice and support for adults who are concerned about their drinking.
The Team offers a brief intervention service and will work with patients you for up 6 face to face sessions. The sessions offer brief advice on alcohol reduction and safe drinking levels. Each session will be tailored to support safer drinker and reduce harm.
Patients at Windhill can be seen by Arooje in The Emerald Suite, to be referred into the service you can either go see your GP for referral, ring The Emerald Suite on 01274 200168 to make an appointment or make an appointment at the Emerald Suite counter.
Alcohol information leaflets were available for members to take.
The group thanked Arooje for her time, interesting talk and information
ANY OTHER BUSINESS
VO closed the meeting and invited members of the group to let her know of any topics or ideas they would like to be covered in future meetings.
DATE OF THE NEXT MEETING
12 OCTOBER at 1.00pm AT WINDHILL GREEN MEDICAL CENTRE
Dr. Chadwick will present Hypertension,
Hannah Crabtree from Carers Resource will talk about IT for the elderly and isolated, and Jeannette will give a demonstration on the use of a Defibrillator.