The Friends of the Village Surgeries

What is a PPG?

The Village Surgeries Patient Participation Group (FOTVS) was started in April 2008 as a partnership between the patients and the doctors of the Wheathampstead Village Surgery:

– Enabling a dialogue between doctors and patients to improve the quality of service provided and to help shape future policies of their Village Surgeries
– Arranging Health Talks to help patients better understand treatment and prevention of health conditions.

The PPG is now free to all users of the Village Surgery Practice in Harpenden and Wheathampstead and receives some funding from the Surgery. The committeee is looking for additional sources of funding to cover administration costs.

Since COVID, many of our health talks have been delvered online. Replays of online health talks are available on this page:

The Village Surgeries Practice

Rated by the Care Quality Commission as Good.

Numbers

16,500 patients

2 Sites: Harpenden & Wheathampstead

9 GPs

2 Physicians Associates

3 Practice Nurses

2 Healthcare Assistants

2 Pharmacists

Join the Friends of the Village Surgeries

If you are a patient of The Village Surgeries, membership of the Patient Participation Group is free. To join the PPG, please allow us to contact you by email by using the form below. We will send you our Newsletter (usually Quarterly), invite you to our Health Talks and occasionally inform you of other health matters so, as you can see, your inbox will not be filled up by us! Please complete this form to join and you can unsubscribe if you move to another GP Practice or if you decide you no longer want to receive our communications.