A Little Bit Of Good News
There is good news, those that go into hospital with Covid-19 do come out. It’s not all about deaths, even though the mass media seem absolutely locked onto these [...]
Coronavirus
Whose Life To Save?
Amid concerns that patient demand could outstrip NHS supply in the fight against COVID-19, there is trepidation the elderly and vulnerable will not be prioritised in [...]
Kent Police Have Chosen NOT To Use Their Drones During Covid-19 Lockdown
At the beginning of covid-19 lockdown there was drone footage appearing across the national press of people seemingly flouting the lockdown. One instance was the people [...]
Fall in Covid-19 symptoms on tracker app suggests lockdown is working
Here is the latest data from the Covid-19 Radar app interactive map. It does NOT mean we are out of the woods yet. It indicates that lockdown and social distancing ARE having [...]
Child Poverty in Kent, Has Risen For Fifth Year In A Row
With the world concentrating it’s attention on the Covid-19 pandemic other issues are, understandably, passing unnoticed. One of these issues is the continuing growth in [...]
Coronavirus Kent: Domestic abuse help is at hand
While the whole country grapples with the consequences of Covid-19, spare a thought for the huge dangers lurking behind closed doors for victims of domestic abuse and [...]
East Kent Hospital Charity Appeal: Helping Your Hospitals
We are receiving many reports from patients who have attended the William Harvey Hospital – Ashford that the Stroke unit was under consideration for closure to be [...]
Arrest Those Developers Officers
They have been called “predatory”, “underhanded”and “unscrupulous” by campaigners who have successfully prevented Gladman Development plans to build hundreds of [...]
A & E Attendance Up As Are Ambulance Journey Times Yet EKHUFT Staff Work Miracles
Wow! They are amazing, all of them on the frontline at our A & E’s at the William Harvey Hospital (WHH) – Ashford & the Queen Elizabeth Queen Mother [...]
Planning For The Future
In a post coronavirus world we need a better model to kick in when and if another pandemic strikes. The council emergency planning was devoid of any action to be taken in the [...]
Confirmed Coronavirus Cases Rise to 91 in Kent & Medway
The Office of National Statistics has released a heat map showing the areas of England and Wales with the most people aged over 70 Age is one of biggest risk factors for [...]
How 79 People Infected With Coronavirus Could Infect The Whole Country If We Do Nothing
Within 21 days the known cases of Coronavirus in Kent (64) & Medway (15) has gone from one to seventy nine, as the interactive graph below shows. There are no doubt [...]
Explaining Coronavirus To A Five Year Old
I am a paramedic and a member of the Shepwayvox Team. While getting prepared for a shift on Saturday, our son – Alan (not his real name) asked me if I was going to die [...]
Library use in Kent fallen by 25% over last six years, figures show
All Kent’s 99 libraries are to close their doors today for an indefinite period as part of a range of measures Kent County Council is taking to curb the spread of [...]
“This Enemy Can Be Deadly. But It Is Also Beatable”
“This enemy can be deadly. But it is also beatable” said the Prime Minister yesterday. To beat coronavirus each of us must play our part in preventing the spread [...]