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Are you a Community Group? If so, here’s how to grab some cash for your projects

February 18, 2023 // 0 Comments

Each of your 30 Councillors have a ‘ward budget’ of up to £3,000 to help community projects. The combined maximum they as Cllrs can dispose of, in any one year [...]

Breaking News: Significant outbreak of Scabies in Asylum seeker hotels in South East England.

November 29, 2022 // 0 Comments

Reports are emerging that a substantial outbreak of scabies is occurring in hotels in the South East (and further afield) where asylum seekers have been placed. It was [...]

Kent MPs make highest ever expenses claims during Covid – 2020/21

January 20, 2022 // 2 Comments

In 2020/21 all 17 Kent MPs between them billed for expenses such as office costs, staffing, accommodation, and travel, just over £3 million pounds. This does not include [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

EKHUFT Staff Attacked During Coronavirus Crisis

April 3, 2020 // 5 Comments

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 [...]

Confirmed Coronavirus Cases Rise to 91 in Kent & Medway

March 24, 2020 // 0 Comments

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

March 23, 2020 // 3 Comments

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 [...]

One in five patients waits two weeks or more to see their GP in Kent & Medway.

March 4, 2020 // 3 Comments

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 [...]

Private Hospitals Receive £16.5 Million from East Kent Hospital University Foundation Trust

November 26, 2019 // 0 Comments

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, [...]

Property & Land Held in Each Kent District by Overseas Companies.

November 11, 2017 // 0 Comments

In conjunction with Ian Driver, a blogger from Thanet, we the Shepwayvox Team, bring you a district by district comparison of how many properties (includes land) are held in [...]

Otterpool Park Update

June 14, 2017 // 4 Comments

So Shepway District Council have announced the dates for the next series of community engagement sessions for Otterpool Park will take place between the Thursday 22nd and [...]

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