East Kent Hospital University Foundation Trust
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%.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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
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.
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
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
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?
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)
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
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
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
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 [...]
EKHUFT Staff Attacked During Coronavirus Crisis
Even during the Coronavirus crisis, NHS staff who work for East Kent Hospital University Foundation Trust (EKHUFT) are being physically and verbally attacked. It is not part [...]
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 [...]
Exclusive: Leaked documents show Quinn Super Hospital at Canterbury would cost £127 million
In leaked documents given to our public face on a visit to one of the hospitals run by East Kent Hospital University Foundation Trust, they show the cost for the proposed new [...]
Private Hospitals Receive £16.5 Million from East Kent Hospital University Foundation Trust
The number of East Kent Hospital University Foundation Trust (EKHUFT) NHS patients having surgery in private hospitals between Apr 2015 to Nov 2019 is just over 36,000, [...]
Deficits, Transformation, Car Parking and a big thank you
All four East Kent Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) in East Kent, Ashford Canterbury & Coastal, South Kent Coast (Folkestone & Dover) and Thanet are in special [...]
Unhealthy work environments
Although anxiety, depression and work-related stress can be connected, they are different things. It is important to recognize that anxiety and depression are clinical health [...]
East Kent Hospital University Foundation Trust performing miracles
The last time a member of the Shepwayvox Team saw his great-aunt Joanna she was propped up by many pillows and lying in a hospital bed with a tube protruding from her nose. [...]
Data reveals the postcode lottery of ‘dying from a preventable cause’ in Kent
Where you live in Kent (not including Medway) influences your risk of dying by an avoidable cause, statistics reveal. Data released by the Office of National Statistics shows [...]
The Long Read: Offshores take two local NHS trusts for a ride
Two local NHS trusts are being taken for a ride. D.R.C. Locums Ltd & Maxxima Ltd are recruitment companies who provide staff to keep our local NHS services working, and [...]