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New Joint Health and Wellbeing Board for Kent and Medway
The separate Health and Wellbeing Boards for Kent, and for Medway, have set up a joint board, as a sub-committee, to encourage integrated working and to advise on the development of our plans for Kent and Medway. The new joint board, which will meet once a quarter,...
read moreSummer 2018 newspaper published
Read our summer update to find out what’s been happening in the Kent and Medway Sustainability and Transformation Partnership. The online copy is available now and hard copies will be on display in NHS and council locations across Kent and Medway. The...
read moreAge UK integrated care programme helps hundreds
The old saying ‘prevention is better than cure’ is proving to be true in the Age UK Integrated Care Programme (ICP) which is supporting older people in Dartford, Gravesham and Swanley and Swale areas. The programme helps older people living with complex health...
read moreMaking every contact count
Making Every Contact Count (MECC) is an evidence-based approach to improving people’s health and wellbeing. It is an approach to behaviour change that uses the millions of day to day interactions that people delivering health and wider services have with people...
read moreReview of pathology services in Kent and Medway underway
A review of pathology services delivered across Kent and Medway is underway. The review, undertaken by provider NHS trusts across the county, is driven by a desire to deliver an improved, sustainable service, as well as national requirements to...
read moreJoint Health Oversight and Scrutiny Committee praise quality of stroke consultation
The Joint Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee (JHOSC), established to scrutinise the Kent and Medway review of urgent stroke services, met on Thursday 5 July 2018 to receive and consider the recently published reports on the stroke consultation and to receive an...
read moreVacancies on our Patient and Public Advisory Group
Can you help us bring the voice of patients and the public to the centre of planning for health and social care? We have five vacancies on our Patient and Public Advisory Group and particularly want to encourage people from diverse or seldom-heard...
read moreRetired Medway nurse Enid Osborne reflects on 70 years since she joined the NHS
In April 1948, inspired by her grandmother, an untrained midwife and her father, a battlefield stretcher-bearer during the First World War, Enid Osborne took her first steps to become part of the NHS legacy by enrolling to become a student nurse. ...
read moreReports on the stroke consultation response and activity published
The NHS in Kent and Medway have today published two reports arising from the recent consultation on changes to urgent stroke services, describing the consultation activity that was delivered and summarising the key themes from the responses received....
read more11 June 2018: Minutes from the Kent and Medway STP programme board meeting
11 June 2018 Programme Board minutes - download here Back to Programme Board pages...
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