The meeting will provide updates on staffing changes at The Docs practice, introduce the new Mental Health Practitioner role, discuss building developments, review the services available through the local Primary Care Network, and address questions from patients. Key points include: - Welcoming new GP registrars and saying goodbye to a departing doctor. - The Mental Health Practitioner will take a trauma-informed approach, facilitating self-management, access to treatment, and brief interventions. - 10,182 patients are now registered at The Docs, with 193 waiting to register. - COVID protocols like masks and cleaning remain in place. - Attendees can suggest topics for the next Patient Participation Group meeting.

1. PPG
The Docs
2nd March
12.00-1.30pm
The meeting will be recorded

2. Agenda
• Welcome
• Workforce update
• Meet our Mental Health Practitioner
• Building development
• Primary Care Network (PCN) / Quality Improvement (QI)
• Capitation increase
• COVID
• Questions & answers
• Close

3. Welcome
Continuous Team update
• GP Registrars (ST2)
• Dr Andrew Chia
• Dr Andrew Mabey
• Goodbye & good luck: Dr Athina Pagiataki
• PCN staff
• Pramod (Pharmacy Technician)
• Georgia (Nurse Associate)
• Antonia (Mental Health Practitioner)

4. Mental Health at The Docs
• People with a diagnosis of mental illness including schizophrenia, affective disorders, personality disorder,
‘emotional dysregulation’, ADHD and autism
• People with poor mental health, but without a diagnosed mental illness
• People who have a history of mental illness, and a history of accessing secondary mental health care, but who
have been managed in primary care for a while and are now distressed or agitated and risk slipping into crisis​.
• People in emotional distress, experiencing difficult life events (such as problems with social isolation, housing,
employment or benefits
Antonia Holmes: The People this model will support

5. The Mental Health Practitioner role
• The MHP will take a trauma informed approach to their practice. This is
a strengths-based approach that seeks to understand and respond to
the impact of trauma on people’s lives.
• The MHP will work with patients to:
1.support shared decision-making about self-management
2.facilitate onward access to treatment services
3.provide brief psychological interventions, where qualified to do so and where appropriate
• The MHP will work closely with other PCN-based roles to help address the
potential range of biopsychosocial needs of patients with mental health problems
• This will include the PCN’s MDT including, for example, PCN clinical pharmacists
for medication reviews, and social prescribing link workers for access to
community-based support

6. Building Development
• The Docs Building – Dr Simon Wilkins
• GJS – Dr Simon Wilkins

7. Our Primary Care Network

8. Workforce available to us
• Care Coordinator
• Clinical Pharmacist
• Pharmacy Technician
• Dietician
• First Contact Physiotherapist
• General Practice Assistant
• Health and Wellbeing coach
• Mental Health Practitioner
• Nurse Associate
• Occupational Therapist
• Community Paramedic
• Podiatrist
• Social Prescribing Link Worker
• Physicians Associate
• Advanced Practitioner

9. Cancer: National Screening
There are 3 National Cancer Screening programmes. The 3 screening programmes below
are initiated by age and invites sent out centrally.
Cervical Screening – Requires a Smear (at the Surgery 25-64yrs)
Breast Screening – Requires a Mammogram (Nightingale Centre 50-74yrs)
Bowel Cancer Screening – Requires a Faecal Occult Blood test (At home)
As a PCN we are focusing on the early signs of cancer, and how to reduce
deaths from Cancer.

10. Registrations last Quarter
• We had 10,043 patients
registered at The Docs
• 477 OUT OF AREA patients
• 70 patients were waiting to be
registered with us
Registrations this Quarter
• We have 10,182 patients
registered at The Docs
• 455 OUT OF AREA patients
• 193 patients are waiting to be
registered with us
Capitation increase

11. COVID

12. Status at The Docs
• We are still asking patients to wear masks on site and when seeing a clinician
• We have a rigid clean down protocol so have been able to carry on with our service
ensuring staff and patients are safe
• Patients booked in for appointments are sent a COVID questionnaire before
attending the practice. This will remain in place

13. Q&A
• Suggestions for next PPG Agenda.
End of Meeting