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            • Hydrotherapy
            • What to expect from physiotherapy
            • Feedback Form
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          • Children and Young Peoples Therapy Service
            
            • How to refer a child to the service
            • Your first appointment
            • Contact us - Children & Young People Therapy Service
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              • How to refer a child to the service
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              • Resources and resources
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            • Children and Young People's Therapies Feedback Form
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        • Urological Cancers
          
          • Prostate Cancer
            
            • Useful Links
              
              • Robotic Prostatectomy Patient Forum
            • Prostate Cancer Treatment
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            • Robotic Prostatectomy
              
              • Part 1: Pre-operative care videos
              • Part 2: Robotic Prostatectomy videos
              • Part 3: Post-operative care videos
          • Kidney Cancer
            
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          • Part 1: Pre-operative care videos
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    • About us
      
      • Research and Innovation
        
        • About our research
          
          • Areas of Research
            
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          • Grant Funding
            
            • EDUCAT an EU Project (2016-2021)
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          • Our Performance
            
            • Our performance and reports
        • Get involved
          
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        • Resources for researchers
          
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          • Who we work with
        • Innovation
          
          • Moma App
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        • News and Events
          
          • HEE-NIHR Integrated Clinical and Practitioner Academic Programme (ICAP) Internship
          • ARC KSS funding opportunities
          • Join Karen in wearing #Red4Research
          • K&C team join prostate cancer trial
          • Research Team Awards
          • Research Seminar
          • NIHR Associate Principal Investigator (PI) Scheme
          • Full steam ahead for Clinical Trials Unit
          • News archive
            
            • EKHUFT Covid-19 Research
            • BERRY study receives HRA/REC approval
            • EKHUFT recruits first three UK patients to international haemophilia study
            • EKHUFT Research & Innovation Awards 2020
            • Do you have an innovation or research idea? Could £7500 help get your idea off the ground?
            • Chris’s research features in prestigious journal
            • Research team in the spotlight again
            • Evolving trends in vulnerabilities and unequal impact in COVID-19
            • Sharon recruits patients to help with Covid-19 research – after beating the virus twice
            • East Kent researchers awarded NIHR grant for exercise trial
            • ARC KSS Darzi Fellowship in Clinical Leadership 2021/22 - opportunity
            • International Clinical Trials Day – May 20th 2021
            • ARC KSS launches new Individual Development Awards for Applied Health and Social Care Research
            • Do you want to combine a career in research and clinical/professional practice?
            • Research & Innovation funding opportunities
        • Contact us
          
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    • Charity
      
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      • Dementia Appeal
    • Members and volunteers
      
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    • News and events
      
      • Latest News
        
        • Folkestone family's lights display helps poorly children
        • Family’s festive lights display thanks Padua Ward staff for their care
        • Finley joins hospital biomedical science team
        • Michelle and Ben are making a difference
        • Celebrating our support workers - meet Arjola Koci
        • Celebrating our support workers - meet Dharmarajen Moorghen
        • Celebrating our support workers - meet Karen Foster
        • Celebrating our support workers - meet Aaron Carliell
        • Prostate cancer surgery felt like a lottery win
        • More families to benefit from 3 Wishes Project
        • Special caps help ease children’s fears about surgery at the William Harvey Hospital
        • First patients treated at QEQM’s new Emergency Department
        • Happy 10th birthday to the MLU at QEQM
        • Gloria Hunniford launches ‘Cuppa for Cancer Care’ campaign to promote local cancer treatment
        • Remembering Dr Habiba ‘Bee’ Hajallie
        • Statements from our chair and Council of Governors in response to the report into our maternity services
        • Council of Governors appoint new Non-executive Director
        • Statement from chief executive Tracey Fletcher
        • WW Martin golf day raises thousands for QEQM
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          • Lindsay is one of three finalists for national British Journal of Nursing award
          • Women in Science day: Estefany Davies proves with hard work anything is possible
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          • Trust pleads guilty to causing Harry and Sarah Richford harm by failing to provide safe care and treatment
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          • Gemma's raffle raises £1,500 for East Kent Hospitals Charity's Dementia Appeal
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          • Michael’s 50 years of health after transplant
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          • New Critical Care Unit taking shape at William Harvey Hospital
          • Jim goes home after 147 days in hospital
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          • Pensioner’s garage sales hit £2k milestone
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          • Laura has the marathon finish line in sight
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