Cllr David Monk: Do as I say, not as I do.
The Shepwayvox Team have been contacted by a number of readers about an incident which took place aboard the High Speed train on Valentine’s day involving the leader of [...]
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East Kent Hospital A & Es require improvement
The national target set for patients to be seen in four hours within arrival at A & E departments is 95%. Our Trust – the East Kent Hospitals University NHS Trust [...]
Rough sleeping rises in nearly all Kent districts
Rough sleeping rose in nine out of twelve districts in Kent (not Medway) last year according to official figures released by the Ministry for Housing Communities & Local [...]
Kent & Canterbury Hospital: Atlas Partners Group Ltd
Atlas Partners Group Ltd (APG Ltd) are a company who have made their intentions known regarding the land involved in the Kent & Canterbury Super Hospital and the 2000 [...]
Peter Principle alive & well at East Kent Hospital University Foundation Trust
The Peter principle is alive and well at East Kent Hospital University Foundation Trust. If for one moment one believes that the proposal for a new Hospital at [...]
Kent MP Costs For 2017/18
All Kent MP’s have cost the UK Taxpayer the sum of £2,697,412, for the financial year 2017/18. (All information is drawn from IPSA’s website.). This is a 3.85% increase [...]
Part 3: One A & E for East Kent?
Below are the average emergency response journey times by postcode, for taking patients to either the A & E at the William Harvey Hospital Ashford and the QEQM Margate in [...]
Transforming NHS Health Care in East Kent
“It’s about all the hospitals continuing to contribute, and all the hospitals doing something, but not all the hospitals doing everything.” Susan [...]
Part 2: One A & E for East Kent?
The cost to build a new hospital at Canterbury would be in the region of £120 million. A hospital of this cost would be able to accommodate between 850 -900 beds, [...]
One A & E for East Kent, but where?
It’s always good to have as many of the facts as possible, to make an informed decision. The possible closures of the A & E’s at the William Harvey Hospital [...]
Development Part 1: 129 days and counting
When democracy counts most in our council chamber, it is nowhere to be seen, well at least that appears to be the case in the Folkestone & Hythe District Council chamber, [...]
The Long Read: Stillbirth – a silent tragedy
In East Kent, on average there will be a stillbirth or neonatal death every five days, that is 70 families every year devastated by the death of a baby, affecting whole [...]
£57 Million Pounds of Development Funding Bids Submitted By 7 Kent Councils.
We need housing to be built across the country, that we do not dispute. We need more homes in Kent, but how many and where? Development doesn’t come without its [...]
Are They Worth £9.2 Million?
In Kent – including Medway, there were 715 elected representatives who received expenses and allowances in the financial year 2016/17. Kent has 559 elected [...]
Property & Land Held in Each Kent District by Overseas Companies.
In conjunction with Ian Driver, a blogger from Thanet, we the Shepwayvox Team, bring you a district by district comparison of how many properties (includes land) are held in [...]
Amazon and J10A M20
Recently a member of the Shepwayvox Team attended the exhibition at Willesborough Community Forum. It was all about the new development of Junction 10a M20, which is to be [...]