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Practice closed for staff training

To help our team learn and grow, we’ll be closed from 12:30pm on Thursday 30th April 2026 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 on Friday 1st May 2026.

Practice closed for bank holiday

We’ll be closed on Monday 4th May 2026 for early May bank holiday.

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. In an emergency always call 999.

We’ll be back open as normal on Tuesday 5th May 2026.

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. 

Training practice

Student health professionals

The practice is involved in teaching a variety of health professionals. From time-to-time we have student nurses and doctors working with us. Wherever possible, we try to include them in the practice team, and they may spend time sitting in consultations with the nurses or doctors. They are bound by the same rules of professionalism and confidentiality as the rest of the team. We will always inform you when a student might be present during your consultation. You can opt out at any time and this will not affect your care in any way.

It is helpful for students to gain experience in talking with patients and examining them. We greatly appreciate our patients’ participation in training the next generation of nurses and doctors.

Further training for qualified doctors and nurses

We also have doctors or nurses working with us who are training to be GPs or practice nurses. They are already fully qualified doctors or nurses but are working under supervision from a senior GP or nurse to develop the skills special to general practice.

Page published: 6 December 2023
Last updated: 6 December 2023