Health

Folkestone & Hythe GP Surgeries: Patient Experience and Access Scorecards

March 12, 2026 // 4 Comments

We have all heard the stock line: general practice is under pressure, staff are working flat out, and patients should be kind. All of that can be true. It can also be true [...]

Southern Water Legal Action: Folkestone & Hythe District Council Escalate Sewage Pollution Fight

February 22, 2026 // 2 Comments

Folkestone & Hythe District Council, Southern Water and the Environment Agency faced residents and campaigners in the same room on Thursday 19 February, to discuss sewage [...]

EKHUFT Maternity Board Data: Ethnicity Recording Gaps and Higher Emergency Caesarean Rates for Some Groups

February 14, 2026 // 2 Comments

Maternity services at East Kent Hospitals University NHS Foundation Trust have been a known area of concern in the past. That history matters, because it raises the bar for [...]

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 [...]

Kent and Medway ICB £198m Deficit: Financial Crisis, Governance Failures and Hospital Performance Ratings Revealed

February 4, 2026 // 0 Comments

Exclusive analysis reveals severe financial pressures across Kent and Medway’s health system, with deficit support funding withdrawn and emergency measures implemented [...]

Kent NHS Whistleblowing: Freedom to Speak Up Promises vs Tribunal Reality

January 22, 2026 // 0 Comments

THE NHS will always need whistleblowers. Healthcare is complex, rapidly changing and dangerous; staff are fallible, variably trained and widely spaced; and demands are huge [...]

Exclusive: The Shepway Vox Team Asks New Kent & Medway NHS ICB CEO Adam Doyle to Clarify Investigations After Procurement and Governance Concerns Emerge

December 16, 2025 // 0 Comments

Exclusive We, the Shepway Vox team, understand that a cluster of serious concerns has been raised inside NHS Kent and Medway’s ICB leadership orbit — including potential [...]

Kent Life Expectancy by District and Constituency (2001–2024): Biggest Gaps, Biggest Gains and What It Means for Folkestone & Hythe’s Ageing Population

December 12, 2025 // 0 Comments

Kent is often described as a single place with a single health story. The reality, once you look at the life-expectancy numbers, is very different. Across the county, people [...]

Kent NHS: Staff Intimidation Linked to St George’s Flags and Far-Right Protests Risks Delaying Home Care

November 11, 2025 // 2 Comments

Health visitors and community nurses report intimidation amid a surge of flags and far-right protests. KCHFT brings in “yellow/red card” sanctions as leaders warn fear [...]

The Air We Don’t Measure: Folkestone & Hythe’s DCs PM2.5 Blind Spot and Wood-Burner Pollution

November 6, 2025 // 0 Comments

The council’s latest Air-Quality Report 2025 measures nitrogen dioxide to the decimal point — but sidesteps the particles most linked to early deaths. Meanwhile, Hythe is [...]

Acting Chair of East Kent Hospital – Stewart Baird – knew of fraud at Trust earlier this year

October 11, 2023 // 2 Comments

Earlier this year the East Kent Hospital University Foundation Trust Non Executive Director for People and Culture and the Vice Chair – Stewart Baird (pictured) said [...]

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 [...]

Trust had substantial cash flow issues in 2022/23

September 28, 2023 // 0 Comments

Just one simple chart shows you that East Kent Hospital University Foundation Trust [EKHUFT] had cash flow issues in 2022/23. The Better Payment Practice code requires that [...]

Council frustrated over lack of movement on new health centre

July 15, 2023 // 3 Comments

On March 12th 2020, the council announced it had successfully agreed terms to purchase the former Debenhams store – now Folca. On the 15th May 2020, Folkestone & [...]

Retrofitting council stock will lead to better health outcomes for those in social housing

May 17, 2023 // 2 Comments

Housing is a big issue for Folkestone & Hythe District Council, but here we are not talking about building more social housing, but rather retrofitting their existing [...]

Right to Roam access in Kent is just 0.6%

May 16, 2023 // 0 Comments

Did you know access to nature is very unequally distributed across England. 72% of the Peak District is access land, compared to just 0.6% of Kent According to data released [...]

Developer offered land for 2,000 homes in exchange for building new hospital facility for free

April 19, 2022 // 5 Comments

Developer Quinn Estates have been offered land for 2,000 homes in exchange for building new hospital facility on land owned by Kent County Council & Canterbury City [...]

Local mental health trust misses deadline to stop sending people far away from home, data shows

June 26, 2021 // 0 Comments

Kent & Medway NHS and Social Care Partnership (KMPT) and the Kent & Medway CCG are still sending people more than 180 miles from their home for Mental Health [...]

Another Reprieve for Folkestone Indoor Bowls Club

March 13, 2021 // 0 Comments

Once again Folkestone Indoor Bowls Club (FIBC) owned by Folkestone & Hythe District Council has managed to escape displacement from it’s current site on Cheriton [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Latest Covid Map show deaths “due to Covid” rose by 39% in Folkestone & Hythe District between Nov & Dec 2020

January 18, 2021 // 0 Comments

Deaths “due to Covid” deaths across the district of Folkestone & Hythe jumped by 38.62% in one month. Between Nov and Dec 2020 the number of Covid deaths grew [...]

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 [...]

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