East Kent

East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust: A&E Delays, Patient-Safety Backlogs and a System Running on Empty

February 14, 2026 // 0 Comments

Board papers from East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust show a week of “critical incident” pressure has now eased — but also reveal deep problems that [...]

Unclaimed and Overlooked: The Human Cost of Early Death and Isolation in Coastal Kent

April 6, 2025 // 0 Comments

In a comparative analysis of East Kent’s coastal districts — Canterbury, Dover (1) (2), Folkestone and Thanet— a quiet but vital civic task plays out behind closed [...]

Dignity in Dying – Freedom of Choice.

November 29, 2024 // 0 Comments

On May 16 2021, we ran a guest post, written by a member of the East Kent’s regional branch of Dignity in Dying. Today our elected Parliamentarians will decide if assisted [...]

Doubt over claims East Kent Hospital Trust have signed NHS Sexual safety in healthcare charter

October 5, 2023 // 0 Comments

Does simply saying something mean it’s true? We ask this question because to date East Kent Hospital University Foundation Trust have stated twice they’ve [...]

Medical ‘Golden Hour’ broken with waiting times for ambulances at record high

April 25, 2022 // 0 Comments

So Mark Quinn wants to build a new £170m hospital extension shell in Canterbury in return for 2,000 homes adjacent the site. If all goes to plan, Canterbury will become the [...]

Stodmarsh Update: Proposals to lift moratorium on development will be presented to government in the next few weeks

August 17, 2021 // 5 Comments

Many people are worried and concerned about development in our district and beyond, but is their concern justified? In 2017 the University of Sheffield released maps showing [...]

Stodmarsh Update: Tens of thousands of East Kent construction jobs in jeopardy, along with 40,000 plus homes.

July 22, 2021 // 6 Comments

Resolving the water-quality issues within the Stodmarsh catchment area; which has placed a moratorium on granting planning consent across the whole of East Kent, is not only [...]

Hospital Acquired Covid spread through EKHUFT Hospitals because of unclean fomites Trust secretary implies

May 30, 2021 // 2 Comments

Not to long ago we asked the question – Is this the stupiest person in England? We stated in our honest opinion, Ms Alison Fox (pictured), who is presently Trust [...]

Holbrook Griffith Developments propose 54 homes on Barrack Hill site in Hythe.

March 9, 2021 // 14 Comments

From Princes Parade in the East to Martello Lakes in the west, Hythe like other towns and villages in the district, is an area where developers like to build. Otterpool Park [...]

Stodmarsh water quality issue unresolved and puts handbrake on housing development in East Kent.

March 5, 2021 // 1 Comment

Back in July 2020 Natural England issued advice to Ashford, Canterbury, Dover, Folkestone & Hythe, Maidstone and Thanet Councils under the catchy title of – [...]

Contact your EKHUFT Governors about your concerns for new hospital at Canterbury

February 28, 2021 // 5 Comments

How many of you know who your Council of Governors representative for East Kent Hospital University Foundation Trust is? How many of you know who your Folkestone & Hythe [...]

Nearly 50% of all EKHUFT beds are occupied by Covid patients

January 8, 2021 // 1 Comment

Updated 09/01/21 @01:25am What with the vaccine rollout to begin soon for many of those in the nine priority groups (some have already received it) across our district is [...]

EKHUFT waiting lists rise as Surgery levels climb to near 2019 figures

December 22, 2020 // 0 Comments

Soaring numbers of patients across East Kent are having to wait more than a year for surgery and more than 18 weeks for consultant-led, routine hospital care because Covid [...]

64% of EKHUFT staff isolate through Covid-19 pandemic

December 19, 2020 // 0 Comments

Updated 11:20 19/12/20 East Kent Hospital University Foundation Trust (The Trust) has 8,602 employees. Due to the flexible working practices encouraged by the Trust this [...]

Abuse of EKHUFT staff by members of the public continues during pandemic

December 17, 2020 // 1 Comment

On April 3rd 2020, we made it clear that East Kent Hospital University Staff had been physically attacked and verbally abused by members of the public during the Covid-19 [...]

Kent County Council & Dover District Council support Port of Dover’s proposals for Free port (Offshore) for East Kent.

July 17, 2020 // 0 Comments

On the 13th July, Cllr Trevor Bartlett, Leader of Dover District Council, said: “Dover District Council wholeheartedly supports the Port of Dover’s proposals for Freeport [...]

A Little Bit More Good News

July 15, 2020 // 3 Comments

There is more good news regarding Covid-19 deaths and recoveries at the East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust (EKHUFT), which serves the districts of Ashford, [...]

Here We Go Again: Gas Safety Issues At East Kent Housing

June 22, 2020 // 4 Comments

Updated 17:00 22/06/20 More sources than the 57 varieties of Heinz have stepped forward and informed the Shepwayvox Team that as of 1st June 2020 there were well in excess [...]

“It’s nothing short of scandalous” as 40,000 plus EKH council tenants data placed at “significant security and operational risk”

June 10, 2020 // 1 Comment

“The servers that the [East Kent Housing] system runs on are due for replacement and the Northgate software is out of support. This poses a significant security and [...]

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