Shirley Spurgeon, from Southborough in Tunbridge Wells (pictured above), joined the NHS Healthier You Diabetes Prevention Programme run by Xyla Health & Wellbeing in April 2021 after being told that…
Photo: Ashford Borough Council The One You Kent shop in Ashford has been highlighted as a great example of bringing health services to the high street in a national report…
Folkestone and Hythe Council say plans to create a new medical centre with state-of-the-art facilities in Folkestone town centre are ‘taking shape’. Cabinet members agreed to the proposed terms of…
As Kent and Medway prepares to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, the NHS is encouraging people to think ahead and stay healthy over the special weekend. The long weekend is…
Investigators from Southern Water have prevented millions of litres of pollution reaching Kent seas and rivers over the past three years, due to household appliances wrongly plumbed in. The Misconnection…
A mobile cancer unit is due to visit Ashford and Sittingbourne as part of the world’s largest trial of a revolutionary new blood test that can detect cancer early. The…
Library image: Pixabay – Healthwatch Kent & Healthwatch Medway are today both warning that health inequalities are widening as people in the South East are struggling to pay for dental…
A brand-new critical care unit, that will benefit some of east Kent’s sickest patients, has opened at the William Harvey Hospital in Ashford. Funded by £14 million national NHS investment,…
‘You were absolutely tiny – look at you now!’ Photo: EKHT A schoolgirl was reunited with the nurse who cared for her when she was born three months early, after…
The eggs presented to Demelza Hospice Care for Children Photo: Kent Police An extra special Easter egg hunt has taken place in Sittingbourne after police cadets donated a bumper selection…
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