From your Patient Participation Group (PPG)
Every month the Academy Medical Centre Patient Participation Group raises awareness of some health and wellbeing campaigns.
The PPG would like to highlight the following campaigns in July:
- Nutrition and Physical activity: there's lots of information on the following websites:
- British Nutrition Foundation, who aim to provide impartial, evidence-based information, education and expertise, motivating people to adopt healthy, sustainable diets
- keeping active and food and nutrition on NHS Inform, including advice on how much exercise should be taken each week
- Food Standards Agency, with advice on food labelling, allergies and food hygiene
- Osteoporosis: NHS Inform includes information about the disease, assessment and treatment, and The Royal Osteoporosis Society will help you check your risk of osteoporosis and provide you with ways in which to manage it.
You can get involved and raise awareness by talking about the campaigns, tweeting or sharing on social media, or by donating, fundraising and pledging your support.
About the PPG
The Academy Medical Centre PPG has worked with the practice since 2010 to enhance the delivery of primary care services in a number of areas.
You can make a difference to the Practice too! To get involved or find out more about the work and how the PPG assists the practice and you, the patient, see the Academy Medical Centre PPG page. Notes of our meetings are also available to give you a real flavour of what we're doing.
