Health

Kent NHS’s Escalating Autism and ADHD Crisis: £28.9m Spent, £20m Budgeted and Full Outcomes Still Unknown

September 28, 2026 // 0 Comments

There is a number buried in the latest NHS Kent and Medway Board ICB papers which ought to stop anyone skimming. Spending on autism and ADHD assessment and treatment rose [...]

Folca 2 Planning Application: Two GP Surgeries Drawn In, Commercial Space To Let — But NHS Sign-Off Is Still Pending

September 15, 2026 // 0 Comments

Walk past Folca 2 on Sandgate Road today and there’s a fairly blunt message hanging from the scaffolding: “SUBSTANTIAL COMMERCIAL PREMISES – TO LET.” Behind that [...]

East Kent Health Divide: Four Coastal Constituencies Top Kent for Depression, COPD, Heart Disease and Stroke

September 15, 2026 // 0 Comments

Follow Kent’s coastline from Herne Bay through Thanet and Sandwich, down through Deal and Dover and on towards Folkestone and Hythe. The scenery changes. In the latest [...]

Folkestone & Hythe Local Plan 2045: Can 15,600 New Homes Be Supported by Water, GPs and Infrastructure?

September 9, 2026 // 1 Comment

Folkestone & Hythe may need to plan for around 15,600 new homes by 2045, but the challenge isn’t simply finding enough land. The district must also prove it can deliver [...]

Kent NHS Trusts Paid £389m in Clinical Negligence Claims – Costliest Specialties by Trust

July 29, 2026 // 0 Comments

Looking only at gynaecology opens one window onto Kent’s clinical-negligence bill. The full ledger is a much bigger, stranger picture: four acute hospital trusts recorded [...]

Why It’s So Hard to Get a GP Appointment in Folkestone & Hythe

July 22, 2026 // 2 Comments

At the crack of eight, the scramble begins. Patients ring, refresh a webpage, fill in a form or wait for somebody to decide whether their problem merits an appointment. By [...]

NHS Kent and Medway Job Cuts: 430 Posts Go as ICB Faces £50.8m Deficit

July 12, 2026 // 0 Comments

What follows isn’t Adam Doyle’s actual words, and it’s not some leaked chinwag from the snug. It’s our straight-talking take on NHS Kent and Medway’s board papers [...]

Folkestone & Hythe Council HR Reports Show Staff Sickness, Stress And Long-Term Absence Rising Under Green-Led Rule

July 6, 2026 // 1 Comment

Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s HR reports between 21/22 – 25/26 read like a match of two halves. The Conservatives left the pitch with a governance mess [...]

East Kent Maternity Safety: Warning Signs Still Flash

June 28, 2026 // 1 Comment

Donna Ockenden’s Nottingham Maternity report, published on Wednesday last week, should make uncomfortable reading in East Kent. Not because Nottingham and East Kent are the [...]

Kent and Medway NHS Dentist Crisis Leaves Patients Behind

June 19, 2026 // 0 Comments

New NHS figures show Swale and Ashford doing better, Canterbury falling badly behind for adults, Thanet flashing red for children — and a dental system still built around [...]

Kent and Medway NHS Waiting Lists Still Above 2023 Despite Fall

June 18, 2026 // 0 Comments

Across Kent and Medway’s four acute hospital trusts, the hospital waiting list is lower than its March 2024 peak — but still higher than it was three years ago. Kent’s [...]

Kent and Medway NHS Corridor Care Revealed

June 18, 2026 // 0 Comments

Official NHS England figures show all four Kent and Medway acute hospital trusts recorded emergency-department corridor care in May 2026, with Medway reporting the highest [...]

Kent IVF Cuts: “Class Warfare” Row After Reform Councillor Says Poor People Shouldn’t Have Babies

June 3, 2026 // 1 Comment

NHS Kent and Medway cut funded IVF as births fall and Kent ages. Then a Reform UK councillor said people on low incomes shouldn’t have babies and called IVF a “lifestyle [...]

The Long Read: Kent IVF Cuts Leave Women Facing a Fertility Postcode Lottery

May 31, 2026 // 0 Comments

NHS Kent and Medway has cut funded IVF from two cycles to one, lowered the age rule from under 40 to treatment before a woman’s 38th birthday, and left the public without [...]

Why Move East Kent’s Top-Rated Stroke Unit Back to Ashford?

May 27, 2026 // 0 Comments

Kent & Canterbury’s “temporary” stroke unit is now producing nationally impressive results. NHS bosses still want to move it to William Harvey Hospital in Ashford. [...]

East Kent Hospitals Crisis: NHS Recovery Programme Exposes Leadership Clear-Out

May 22, 2026 // 0 Comments

East Kent Hospitals was put into NHS intensive recovery because of long waits, financial pressure and leadership churn. Now the chief executive has gone, the chair has gone, [...]

Folkestone & Hythe GP Waiting Times: The Surgery Access Lottery

May 20, 2026 // 0 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe’s GP picture isn’t one simple story of good surgeries and bad surgeries. It’s a patchwork: some practices are turning round large numbers of [...]

Palantir in Kent NHS: Trusts, Patient Data and the FDP Rollout

April 30, 2026 // 1 Comment

“The NHS is the closest thing the English have to a religion.” Nigel Lawson meant it as politics, but it works as a warning too. The NHS is not just another public body. [...]

East Kent Ambulance Delays Ease but NHS Targets Are Still Missed

April 14, 2026 // 0 Comments

For years, ambulance performance in East Kent was one of those local scandals that seemed to need no introduction: queues outside hospitals, handover delays, and response [...]

Kent Meningitis Outbreak: Exercise Pegasus Paper Mentioned Meningitis Before Canterbury Cluster

April 7, 2026 // 0 Comments

In January, Kent’s public health committee was given a routine-looking update on Exercise Pegasus, a national pandemic-preparedness exercise. Buried in the paper was a line [...]

Southern Water Sewage: Why Some Kent Councils Investigate and Others Look Away

April 6, 2026 // 0 Comments

Two Kent councils are now investigating possible statutory nuisance complaints over alleged untreated sewage discharges by Southern Water. Others are hesitating, dragging [...]

Folkestone & Hythe Council Backs East Stour and Romney Marsh Sewage Testing

April 2, 2026 // 1 Comment

There are some council debates that arrive gift-wrapped for local government purists: knotty, procedural, full of worthy intent and decorated with enough amendments to make [...]

East Kent Hospitals Recovery Programme: Fire Safety, Maternity and Complaint Failures Exposed

April 2, 2026 // 1 Comment

When East Kent Hospitals’ board meets later today, Thursday 2 April, it will do so with the trust now officially placed in the government’s new NHS intensive recovery [...]

Kent Councils’ Environmental Health Powers on Sewage: Who to Contact and What They Can Do

March 16, 2026 // 2 Comments

Yesterday, we looked at What Powers Does Kent’s Director of Public Health Have Over Sewage Pollution. Today, in the final part of this public health series, we turn to the [...]

What Powers Does Kent’s Director of Public Health Have Over Sewage Pollution?

March 15, 2026 // 0 Comments

Following on from yesterday’s article, Kent E. coli Cases, Sewage and the Public Health Risk, the next question is unavoidable. If sewage pollution is plainly a [...]

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