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 [...]
Health
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 [...]
“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 [...]
One in five patients waits two weeks or more to see their GP in Kent & Medway.
Phoning you Doctor’s surgery to book an appointment often leads to frustration. The line is engaged, you are on hold for what seems like forever and when you finally [...]
Let’s Talk About Sex Baby
“Sex doesn’t stop just because you’ve hit 50 plus, that’s a fact.” Alan 87 & Janet 85 Positive sexually transmitted infections test results [...]
GP Patient Numbers Grow By Just 1% in 2019
The Conservative Manifesto 2019 at page 23 states: In order to help communities cope better with pressures on public services, we will ensure that new GP and school places [...]
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 [...]
Food for Thought
Politician’s argue sharpening their knives. (UB40: Food for Thought) In less than 48 hours polls will open allowing you to cast your vote in the General election. There [...]
Thank you Air Ambulance Kent Surrey & Sussex
They are amazing each and every one of them. The Air Ambulance Kent, Surry & Sussex (AAKSS) staff do an incredible job, so as this festive season fast approaches we wish [...]
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, [...]
Assaults on SECamb Paramedics double in eight years
Assaults on any of the emergency service workers are unacceptable. That is so obvious as to be trite, but for the avoidance of doubt, that is our starting point. There has [...]
Climate Change: Act Local, Think Global to save our planet
If we are to save our planet we have to keep global warming to 1.5 degrees, if at all possible. And then we will have to reverse the trend: containing the change is simply [...]
Pollution levels on the rise across more than half of areas measured by Folkestone & Hythe District.
Mums are amazing! They have given each of us our lives, they carried us, cared for us and sustained us throughout the nine months we tend to spend in their womb. New research [...]
Health inequalities in Kent parliamentary constituencies
Health inequalities cost lives. They are fundamentally linked to an inequality in wealth, access to services and political power. The most depressed parliamentary [...]
Otterpool Park Update: Some flesh on the bones.
EXCLUSIVE – updated 17:00 The joint developers of the Otterpool Park master-plan – Folkestone & Hythe District Council & Cozumel Estates BVI – [...]
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 [...]
Good for one’s wellbeing? You can ponder that.
Updated Midday 26/02/18 Running alongside Shepway District Council’s Draft Places & Policies Local Plan Feb 2018 (PPLP), according to SDC’s payment to [...]