East Kent Hospital University Foundation Trust

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 [...]

1,400 people likely caught Covid while hospital inpatients in Kent & Medway NHS Trusts

March 27, 2021 // 0 Comments

Nearly 1,400 people have been likely infected with coronavirus while being treated in Kent Acute NHS Trust hospitals for another reason, raising concerns about the NHS’s [...]

Breaking News: False Fire Alarm crashes EKHUFT IT System

March 11, 2021 // 0 Comments

Exclusive East Kent Hospital University Foundation Trust IT system crashed yesterday (Wednesday 10th March). The system was down across the whole Trust for just over half the [...]

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 [...]

Oh what a tangled web we weave…

February 26, 2021 // 0 Comments

When the Shepway Vox Team were chasing down the figures for Hospital Acquired Covid via an Environmental Information Request, three of the four Kent Acute NHS Trusts supplied [...]

Is this the stupidest person in England?

February 24, 2021 // 9 Comments

Updated 07:47 26/02/20 It is our honest opinion that Alison Fox (pictured), who is presently Trust Secretary for East Kent Hospital University Foundation Trust is the [...]

One in six people admitted to a Kent Acute NHS Trust hospital without Covid, became infected in hospital.

February 11, 2021 // 0 Comments

Updated 13/02/21 @11:54am The rate of Hospital Acquired Covid – technically known as “nosocomial” infections – across all four Kent acute NHS Trust mirrors [...]

Hospital Acquired Covid data for all Kent Acute NHS Trusts

February 9, 2021 // 2 Comments

All acute NHS Trusts Hospitals have been in the eye of a covid-19 storm. This has been driven by rapid rises in community infection rates in March/April, Sept/Oct and Dec. [...]

34% of Covid patients conveyed by Ambulance were not admitted to Kent Hospitals

January 28, 2021 // 4 Comments

Updated 29/01/21 @11:50am The number of Covid-19 patients conveyed to the four Kent Acute NHS Trusts by South East Coast Ambulance between 1 Jan and 30 Nov was 7,362. The [...]

75% of all Covid patients who enter all four Kent NHS Trusts beds survive

January 15, 2021 // 3 Comments

Updated 18:45 -15/01/21 Martin Landray, professor of medicine and epidemiology at Oxford University (pictured) is probably a man you have never heard of. However, in The [...]

Visits to all Kent NHS Trusts A & Es falls by 20%.

January 15, 2021 // 0 Comments

From bedroom to boardroom, from our NHS to our education system, from employment and unemployment, Covid has and will continue to affect not just our behaviour about visiting [...]

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 [...]

Good News: 76% of all Covid patients who enter EKHUFT beds survive.

January 1, 2021 // 0 Comments

Updated 01/01/2021 @14:55 Here’s the good news, 76% of all patients who have entered East Kent Hospital University Foundation Trust three main hospitals, William Harvey [...]

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 [...]

One third of all beds at EKHUFT 3 Main Hospitals are occupied by patients with Covid-19.

December 21, 2020 // 3 Comments

Updated 21/12/20 @ 14:02 As of this morning, BBC South East News announced that 375 beds within East Kent Hospital University Foundation Trust three main hospitals, William [...]

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 [...]

Revealed: Elderly paid price of protecting NHS in Kent from Covid.

November 21, 2020 // 4 Comments

Elderly people were excluded from hospitals and intensive care during the height of the pandemic’s first wave as part of efforts to stop the NHS in Kent being overrun [...]

Fire Safety Issues Emerge at Kent & Canterbury Hospital

November 19, 2020 // 2 Comments

Updated @ 09:30am 23/11/20 In the last few days it has come to light that there are issues with the fire system at the Kent & Canterbury Hospital. On the 17th Nov a [...]

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, [...]

If we love our NHS so much in Kent & Medway, why have we sued it for more than £200 million?

June 13, 2020 // 2 Comments

Many of you throughout the covid-19 pandemic gathered in your streets, on your doorsteps, in your gardens, to pay tribute to the brave workers of the NHS, by clapping, and [...]

Coronavirus Kent in Five Graphs Week 21 (22/05/20)

June 2, 2020 // 1 Comment

NB: All deaths are by local authority and by cause of death, for deaths that occurred up to 22nd May but were registered up to 30th May in England and Wales. They are [...]

Hiding Good News

May 15, 2020 // 1 Comment

We have tried to get discharge figures from hospitals in Kent, to bring you a good news story, like we did in mid April. However, in a response for the East Kent Hospital [...]

RIP Aimee O’Rourke

April 16, 2020 // 3 Comments

We did not know Aimee O’Rourke, nor do we suspect did many of you. Aimee was a 39-year-old nurse who worked at the Queen Elizabeth Queen Mother Hospital in Margate, [...]

A Little Bit Of Good News

April 15, 2020 // 8 Comments

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 [...]

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