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Practice closed for staff training

To help our team learn and grow, we’ll be closed from 12:30pm today for staff training.

If you’re not feeling well and need to speak to a medical professional, contact NHS 111 by calling 111 from your telephone or visiting 111.nhs.uk. You can also call the practice to use our out of hours service. In an emergency always call 999.

We’ll be back open as normal tomorrow.

Meningitis B

You may have seen reports of an outbreak of Meningitis among university students in Kent. It is reported that this is an outbreak of Meningitis B.

We have not received instruction from NHS England to offer Meningitis B outside of the normal vaccination programme at this time. We will be contacting eligible patients who are missing other Meningitis vaccinations (ACWY) to invite them in for vaccination. 

Patient Participation Group

Would you like to have a say about the services provided at The Robert Darbishire Practice? We would like to hear your views so we can find out how we can improve our service to you.

We have created a Primary Care Network (PCN) Patient Participation Group, where patients from The Robert Darbishire Practice, University GP Service and The Whitswood Practice will come together to discuss their surgery and its services. We aim to meet four times a year in person. The Patient Participation Group will also take part in regular surveys.

Join our Patient Participation Group

All registered patients are able to join our Patient Participation Group. People of all genders, ages, ethnicities, and those with health conditions and disabilities are encouraged to join.

Members should as far as possible, be representative of the surgery population.

Join our Patient Participation Group

If you are unable to complete the form online, please phone us on 0161 225 6699.

Many thanks for participating, we look forward to working with you.

Page published: 9 May 2023
Last updated: 11 December 2025