Yes, I do sit on the PPG, have for years. Until recently I was minutes secretary and it looks like I will be again from the next meeting. The old Practice Manager was very good and very pro-PPG, he got various people to speak to us, like the local pharmacy manager when the new “spine” system came in. He left to live in Australia and a youngish woman took over. She regards the PPG as a necessary evil. She resents the meetings as she has to work until 7pm and can’t be at home with her children. She would like us to be a fund raising group, but as we have pointed out, making money giving coffee mornings isn’t the reason we exist. She dislikes anything that might cause her any work at all. So she was doing the minutes and “slanting” them to say what she wanted them to. I have pointed out errors and omissions in the minutes and also on the practice website numerous times and she does nothing about it. It’s all becoming rather political I am afraid. It’s a bit of a minefield and the chair resigned at the last meeting because she had become a nervous wreck over the meetings. Shame as she is a nice woman and we have become friends. So the chair has been taken over by the Practice Manager temporarily until we can have another meeting.
i shall just keep on nagging about the online test results meantime.
