What Powers Does Kent’s Director of Public Health Have Over Sewage Pollution?
Following on from yesterday’s article, Kent E. coli Cases, Sewage and the Public Health Risk, the next question is unavoidable. If sewage pollution is plainly a [...]
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East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust: A&E Delays, Patient-Safety Backlogs and a System Running on Empty
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 NHS: Staff Intimidation Linked to St George’s Flags and Far-Right Protests Risks Delaying Home Care
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 [...]
Are you a Community Group? If so, here’s how to grab some cash for your projects
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.
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
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
Property & Land Held in Each Kent District by Overseas Companies.
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
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 [...]