A Patient Participation Group (PPG) is a group of patients interested in health and healthcare issues, who want to get involved with and support the running of their local GP surgery.
Our Objectives
The purpose of the Redlands Primary Care Patient Participation Group (PPG) is to support the practice with the following:
Help the practice to improve services.
Provide information in a patient friendly way.
Influence local provision of health services.
Provide feedback on patient’s needs, concerns and interests, and challenge the practice constructively whenever necessary.
Act as positive ambassadors for health within the local community.
If you would like your voice to be heard in support of the above, then please let us know.
Acting Chair: Barbara Clift
Secretary: Marilyn Daw – redlandsppg@gmail.com
Join our PPG
We aim to have a truly representative sample of our patients. We need young people, workers, retirees, people with long-term conditions and people from non-British ethnic groups.
If your are a patient at our practice, and would you like to be more involved in the practice, could you spare an occasional hour or two periodically to respond to any specific questions we might have?
If so, we would love to hear from you and involve you in our group.
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If you would like to register your interest in joining our Patient Participation Group:
Complete the online sign up form by accessing the page below, or download the pdf version of our sign up form.
Sign up for Patient Participation GroupPPG Committee Profiles
Barbara Clift: (Acting Chair)
Barbara worked for 22 yrs for IBM, an international technology and consulting company. Her career included sales, account and marketing management, strategic alliances and partnerships, business transformation and board level consulting engagements.
Her voluntary sector work includes preventative health measures and wellbeing, cancer care bereavement services, support for adults with learning difficulties, bereavement support for parents who have lost a child and eating disorders.
Between 2014-2021 Barbara was a non-executive Director (NED) for Somerset NHS Foundation Trust. She gained extensive Board and Committee experience, holding key roles as the NED lead for Safeguarding and Chair of the Mental Health Act Committee.
On a personal note Barbara moved to Devon in 2024 for family reasons; she has 2 grown children and 5 grandchildren. She is passionate about self-care and preventative care to support those living with chronic health conditions, having lived with a long term physical health condition since the age of 21.
Debbie Keast
I’m Debbie and I’ve been married to David for 37 years we have a son, Nathan & daughter, Hannah and 3 grandchildren Oscar, Kaitlyn & Harlow! They keep us busy and I also do lots of things for my Mum.
I work for Primary Sports & Education and an active member of Crediton Congregational Church. I’m very sporty enjoying Park Runs and volunteering as a Park Walker every Saturday, plus pickleball and I’m also a member of Crediton Bowling Club.
I’ve done a lot of fundraising for Mind, Breast Cancer Now & Epilepsy Action in the last 10 years plus local playgroups & recently I ran the Great West 10K in aid of FORCE Cancer Charity.
I’m a very practical person wanting to make a difference to the community I live in & this is what I strive to do as a member of the PPG.
Graeme Barnell
Born shortly after WW2, I am the eldest of five children. Brought up on a council estate in a village near Northampton, I went to the local boy’s grammar school then to Nottingham and Bristol Universities. Worked first as a teacher then as a social worker in London where my work centred on child protection and mental health. Rose through the
ranks. Married then moved with family of four children to Hastings where I managed Social Services in a large area of East Sussex.
In 1994 I joined Nestor BNA Ltd to set up new mental health services. I then worked for several commercial sector healthcare companies including Priory Health Care firstly in a project manager then as an operational manager. I moved to Devon in 2005 to work as Director of Operations for the Devon Partnership NHS Trust.
I moved in 2011 to work as Mental Health Commissioning Manager for both NHS Bournemouth and Poole and NHS Dorset Primary Care Trusts. I left in 2013 when these organisations were disbanded. I then worked as a private consultant to various NHS organisations before finally retiring in 2018.
I served as an MDDC District Councillor for four years until 2023. I am currently Parish Councillor. I am a widower and currently live alone in Newton St. Cyres with my two dogs in an old thatched house that’s too big for me. I have four grandchildren, sing in two choirs, enjoy my garden, indulge in local history, environmental activism, good coffee and red wine.
John Downes
John is a District and Town Councillor for Boniface Ward where he lives with his wife Chris who works as a Social Worker. They brought up their two children, John and Charlotte, in Crediton where they attended Haywards and QECC schools. He is a retired Chartered Engineer and now works part time for Crediton Arts Centre.
He is involved in many local voluntary groups, most of which are to do with health, the arts and the environment. These include Sustainable Crediton, Redlands Patient Participation Group and the Crediton Festivals.
John is a green environmentalist and keen cyclist and tries to keep fit by being a member of Lords Meadow Leisure Centre. He loves music and plays guitar in local bands and to relax he enjoys walking his dog Django in the surrounding countryside.
Lin Denner
My history is all with the NHS, stretching from clinical to educational and management all of which I’m proud of and hopefully I have made improvements and enhancements to care along my career. I was chair of Newcombes PPG and as I’m now retired I no longer want responsibility but do want to be involved in the changes we hopefully
will be part of. We can all play our part in this.
Marilyn Daw
I am an ordinary patient who was with Chiddenbrook Practice before the amalgamation. I went to the second PPG Meeting to find out what it was about and to try to bring some positivity to Redlands.
I was born in Morchard Bishop and lived locally moving 5 miles to Coldridge when I married my husband John. My first secretarial job was with the NFU in Crediton until I became a Farmer’s Wife; for a period of 3 months I was temporary County Organiser of the Devon Federation of YFCs; I was receptionist in QE Lower School and Clerk to Governors and employed as the first Secretary of the Mid Devon Show in 1993. After which I worked for the School permanently until my retirement in1998 having been given the administrative role for the SEN unit two years before.
I am a volunteer & Steward for both the Devon County and Mid Devon Shows – sitting on their various Committees also Hon Secretary for the Friends of Crediton Church.
Michael Elliott
Michael has been a local resident and a Newcombes / Redlands patient since 1992.
His career was in the Banking industry and prior to moving to Devon, where he retired as local Corporate Director, he was mostly based in London and the Home Counties. He was a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers and lectured on The Law and Practice of Banking.
In the past he has served on, or chaired, various boards in a non-executive capacity, mostly in the Education and Business Advisory sectors.
He is married with two adult daughters, one an NHS administrator and the other an Optometrist.
PPG Meeting Details
Click the link below to access details of our next PPG meeting and previous minutes.