Present:
David Bellamy, Chair of Littledown Surgery Patient Group
Emma Prince, Practice Manager
Matt Baker, Senior Locality Lead, Dorset CCG
21 patients
- Apologies: From 1 patient
- Review of notes from last meeting – 28 September 2016
- The Governor at Royal Bournemouth Hospital had offered to come and speak to us – this isn’t available any more
- Extended role of Patient Group – we have established a Premises Sub-group who meet with Emma, the Practice Manager, a couple of times a year to walk-round the premise and point out issues that they identify from a patient perspective. The initial walk-round had been done, and was thought to be useful by all involved.
- Phlebotomy – the practice is planning to recruit a Health Care Assistant who will be able to take blood. This means we will be able to offer more phlebotomy appointments, but we will not be able to do all of the blood tests for all our patients. We will most likely expand our current criteria for those whose blood we can take at the surgery.
- Dorset Clinical Commissioning Group
Matt Baker, Senior Locality Lead from Dorset CCG came to discuss the Clinical Services Review and the Primary Care Commissioning Strategy. We were pleased to see such a large turnout of patients, indicative of the interest in this very important issue.