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        • Stroke Services
          
          • What is stroke?
            
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      • Endoscopy Services
        
        • Patient Information Leaflets (endoscopy)
      • Gynaecology services
        
        • Gynaecology services and clinics
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        • What is Interventional Radiology?
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      • Kent Haemophilia & Thrombosis Centre
        
        • Our facilities
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        • Patient Information: Haemophilia
          
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      • Maternity
        
        • Self-referral
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          • The Journey - pregnancy, labour and beyond
            
            • The Journey - Chapter 2
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            • The Journey - Chapter 5
            • The Journey - Chapter 6
            • The Journey - Chapter 7
          • Antenatal Care
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          • Feeding your baby: information for women and their families
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        • Pharmacy: Inpatient services
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      • Renal Services
        
        • Advanced Kidney Care
          
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          • Acute Kidney Injury Research
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        • About us
          
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        • Simulation facilities
          
          • William Harvey Sim Suite
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          • Managing Organ Donation in the Simulator
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      • Sexual Health
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          • Occupational Therapy
            
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          • Children and Young Peoples MSK Physiotherapy Outpatients
            
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              • Ponseti Clinic
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              • Chronic pain clinic
            • Hydrotherapy
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            • 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
            • Paediatric Speech and Language Therapy
              
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                • Early Communication
                • Learning Words
                • Understanding and Using Sentences
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                • Social communication needs or Autism Spectrum Disorder
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              • Patient leaflets
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              • How to refer a child to the service
            • Paediatric Physiotherapy
              
              • Advice sheets and resources
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              • Resources and resources
            • Children and Young People's Therapies Feedback Form
            • Frequently asked questions for all paediatric therapies
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          • Interstitial Cystitis/Bladder Pain Syndrome (ISC/BPS)
          • Urinary Incontinence
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        • Rapid Access Services
          
          • Haematuria clinic
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        • Stone Disease
          
          • Emergency Stone Care
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      • Vascular Surgery
        
        • Vascular diseases
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      • Urgent treatment and emergency care
        
        • Emergency departments
          
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        • A&E myth buster
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        • Which service is right for you?
    • Information for patients
      
      • Accessibility
        
        • Accessible Information Standard
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      • Frequently asked questions
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        • You said, we did
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          • Complaint form
        • Complaints Policy, PALS Policy and Annual Report
        • How we have responded to complaints
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        • Reduce the risk of falling in hospital
        • Free WiFi for patients and visitors
        • Helping you feel yourself again
    • About us
      
      • Being a Foundation Trust
      • Boards and committees
        
        • The Board of Directors
          
          • 2020 Board of Directors Meetings
          • Board meetings - Archive
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            • Council of Governors - 2015 Meetings
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          • Annual Members' Meeting 2019
            
        • Organisational Structure Charts
        • Diversity and Inclusion
          
          • Meet the Team
          • The Equality Act 2010
          • Equality Analysis
          • Equality Delivery System
          • Archive of documents
          • BAME
            
            • BAME news
              
              • BAME meeting dates
              • BAME Archived News
                
                • BAME conference 2016
                • Black History Month 2015
                • BAME AGM 2017 - Cancelled
                • BAME conference 2018
                • ‘Pioneers’ of British migration - 2018
                • Invite for South regional Chief Nurse Officer BME Strategic Advisory Group meeting on 20 September 2018
                • Rosalind Franklin programme for mid-level leaders in health and care - 2018
                • Black History Month CPD Event, Maidstone Hospital
                • NHS Leadership Academy Elizabeth Garrett Anderson programme 2018
                • Black History Month event at the William Harvey Hospital Hub, 23 October 2018
            • BAME meeting agendas and minutes
            • BAME links and downloads
            • Terms of Reference
            • BAME Picture Gallery
          • Disabled Staff Council
        • Privacy and dignity
          
          • Dignity Champions
      • Counter Fraud
      • Documents and publications
        
        • Annual reports and business plans
          
          • Archive of Annual reports and business plans
        • Our performance
          
          • Our performance 2013
        • Statements and declarations
          
      • Emergency Planning
      • Ensuring Safer Staffing
      • Freedom of Information
        
        • FOI: Who we are and what we do
        • FOI: What we spend and how we spend it
          
          • Transparency in spending
        • FOI: What our priorities are and how we are doing
        • FOI: How we make decisions
        • FOI: Our policies and procedures
          
        • FOI: Lists and registers
        • FOI: The services we offer
        • Freedom of Information Publication Scheme
        • FOI Disclosure Log
        • FOI Compliance
      • Our vision, mission and values
      • Safeguarding adults
      • Social media guidelines
      • Support East Kent Hospitals
      • You and your personal information
        
        • Your right to opt out
      • Year of the Nurse and Midwife
        
        • Our Nurses and Midwives
          
          • Diana Machado
          • Jess Coates
          • Pat Johnson
          • Sarah Whitney
          • Valeria Pellegrini
          • Tina Elliott
          • Lindsay Wheeler
          • Tanya-Jane Cox
          • Adam Campfield
          • Alana Debnam
          • Sally Densham
          • Kate Lynch
          • Rebecca Tebbutt-Ford
          • Kira Town
          • Carrie Merry
          • Louise Ward
          • Jackie Smith
          • Chloe Emblem
          • Francescah Hayward
          • Ruth Hulbert
          • Stella Adegoke
          • Yvonne Davis
          • Clare Patterson
    • Charity
      
      • League of Friends
        
        • QEQM League of Friends
          
          • League of Friends - what we have bought
          • Request for gifts
          • League of Friends events
            
            • 2017 Fashion Show
            • 2019 Fashion Show
        • Buckland League of Friends
      • Dementia Appeal
    • Members and volunteers
      
      • Volunteering at East Kent Hospitals
        
        • Application information
      • Members - Council of Governors
      • Members news and events
        
        • Become a governor
          
          • Elections news archive
          • Governor's Fact Sheet
        • Transforming NHS and social care in Kent and Medway: the case for change
      • Membership form
      • Become a member
        
        • Health Service Discounts for members
    • News and events
      
      • Latest News
        
        • Professor Stephen Smith, Trust Chair
        • Teenager’s online beauty pageant raises money in memory of beloved granny
        • AHP week: All about speech and language therapists
        • 'I thought I was going crazy - until I was diagnosed with lupus'
        • Nurse’s artwork inspires young diabetic patients across east Kent
        • Sam shares her story for Coming Out Day
        • CQC prosecution
        • Care Quality Commission publishes August inspection reports
        • Celebrating Physician Associate Week
        • Mum’s marathon in aid of Tiny Toes appeal
        • 'Hospital staff gave their all to save my life'
        • Eye Talk aid helps Tony find his voice
        • Children benefit from goody bag donation from The Top Model Foundation
        • Radiographer’s image selected as part of National Portrait Gallery lockdown exhibition
        • £7million investment for east Kent emergency departments this winter
        • Pensioner’s lockdown garden sales boost East Kent Hospitals Charity
        • The sun will always shine in hospital garden thanks to new mural artwork
        • Mum’s charity challenge in memory of son
        • Family tragedy inspires nurse to write book
        • ‘We’re hiking to support NHS colleagues instead of enjoying our honeymoon’
        • Dad plans charity walk for hospital that saved his baby son’s life
        • RITA machines give patients with dementia the chance to step back in time
        • 'Incurable breast cancer won't stop me living my life''
        • Yvonne is back in the medical fast lane
        • Carolyn bids farewell to the William Harvey Hospital after 42 years
        • 'My care was wonderful from start to finish'
        • CQC inspection of East Kent Hospitals' emergency departments
        • Solar power plan cuts carbon emissions
        • Family's wind spinners raise money for the NHS
        • Happy birthday QEQM - and thanks for saving my life
        • Happy birthday to the NHS - and Ann!
        • Sue's 45 years of service to the QEQM
        • Give us your views on changes to outpatient departments
        • Happy socially distanced birthday to the QEQM
        • Corporate donations boost charity appeal
        • East Kent patients contribute to life-saving coronavirus research trial
        • Becky's marathon effort to get back to fitness after COVID-19
        • 'I won't let diabetes hold me back'
        • Gurkhas' charity run raises thousands
        • Variety of roles for our valued volunteers
        • Applause for enterprising young fundraiser
        • Restarting the NHS – help shape the future
        • Thank you for working to save my sight
        • 'I clapped for carers - and they clapped for me'
        • Virtual group helps support coronavirus patients
        • Thanks to all our coronavirus volunteers
        • Trust welcomes CQC report on maternity services
        • Former and student midwives help out during coronavirus outbreak
        • Rod Stewart helped me find my voice after coronavirus coma
        • Rainbow rocks raise money for NHS charities
        • Cancer care bus helps keep patients safe
        • My coronavirus birth was a positive experience
        • Jackie bids farewell to nursing after almost 40 years
        • 'I had excellent cancer care during the coronavirus pandemic'
        • NFU Mutual staff donate thousands to NHS appeal to support frontline hospital staff
        • Pilot allows ambulance staff to FaceTime specialist stroke consultants
        • Trust holds more virtual consultations than any other in the south east
        • Midwife delivers coronavirus parody song
        • Virtual clinics help audiology patients stay in touch
        • 'There are not enough words to thank people for their kindness'
        • Cancer services still open for business
        • Patient's poem thanks teams for their support
        • ‘Your support helps us keep going’
        • Harriet's home run raises hundreds for the NHS
        • Vow renewal will help Ian celebrate life after COVID-19
        • Ward manager features in NHS charity single
        • Kent Search and Rescue volunteers team up with NHS staff to deliver vital medicines
        • Tributes to nurse Adekunle Enitan
        • Schoolgirl's NHS video tops 22,000 views
        • Tributes to Mary-Anne Lovett
        • Video sign language interpreting makes services accessible to all
        • Temporary workforce provides boost to Trust
        • Jason returns to help Trust team
        • Trust staff embrace redeployment
        • A little help from our Friends
        • Hospital staff still here to help
        • Schoolboy braves the shave for hospital charity
        • Send a special message and a heart to a loved one
        • ‘I can’t thank the NHS enough for saving my life after coronavirus’
        • Rotarians respond to coronavirus outbreak
        • Appeal for fabric hearts for hospital patients
        • 'I felt very safe giving birth in hospital'
        • Thank you to our local communities
        • Tributes to nurse Aimee O'Rourke
        • ‘Virtual’ marathon for hospital charity
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        • Trust doctors can now offer Botox treatment for bladder problems
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        • News archive 2019
          
          • QEQM team is helping people tackle alcohol and drug dependency
          • Movie technology being used to help young children with haemophilia
          • Don’t give Norovirus to your loved ones in hospitals
          • Maintenance of buildings and estate
          • Sepsis Collaborative scoop award
          • Trust's innovative use of social media technology to improve patient care
          • East Kent Joint Commissioner Meeting
          • Kent and Medway Stroke Review: Decision-making meeting this month
          • Significant changes to hospital care following CQC inspection
          • Medieval shield gets a taste of modern medicine to help reveal its secrets
          • Transformation of stroke services gets go-ahead
          • Cancer patient signals end to six months chemotherapy at QEQM
          • Chief Executive thanks staff for response to power outage
          • EKHUFT uses technology to help expectant mums
          • Public feedback shapes future hospital and local care services
          • Keep your eyes peeled for the Pink Lady apple runners
          • Apprenticeship Award for East Kent Hospitals
          • Huge thanks for a veteran breast screening fundraiser
          • Changing tastes at QEQM
          • Trust uses innovative IT software to improve eye care
          • Maternity team wish mum-to-be Happy Birthday
          • Mum's the word!
          • Community Matters supports Sepsis outreach
          • The state-of-the-art puppet helping children at East Kent Hospitals
          • Our emergency waiting times are country's fourth ‘most-improved’
          • Patients treated sooner this winter
          • Producing sunscreen doesn't need to be a sticky business
          • Compassionate maternity space for parents gets transformation
          • International Nurses Day
          • A fundraising force to be reckoned with
          • Kent councillors support NHS plans for stroke services
          • New hope for people living with Dementia
          • Planning future hospital services - we need your help
          • Amputee Support Group celebrate the League of Friends
          • Advice from Public Health England on Listeria cases being investigated
          • QEQM staff go above and beyond for terminally-ill patient
          • Shame and social stigma ‘putting cancer patients at risk’
          • Hugo joins the gang
          • Ophthalmology perform another Kent first
          • Students' kind gesture goes down a treat
          • New operation at EKHUFT will transform life for thousands of men
          • Staff and patients get 'reddy' for sepsis
          • Leading the way in robotic trials to improve mobility
          • Closet offers patients more than just clothes
          • Ambitious plan will improve care for people with dementia
          • Mothers and babies join the Big Latch-On
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          • Wishes come true for Friends of William Harvey Hospital
          • Remember Minor Injury Units this summer
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          • Jenny scrubs up well as cleaner-turned-nurse
          • Florence's legacy is helping other families
          • Facing the heartbreak of life without Freddie
          • Nadège's eye for detail benefits patients
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          • Party makes patient's wishes come true
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          • Golf day raises thousands for children's ward
          • Huge support for Sweatin for Steve fundraiser
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          • Trust on the way to becoming Baby Friendly
          • Celebrating 10 years of transforming lives
          • Lis helps celebrate 30 years of breast screening service
          • Marathon effort to thank hospital staff
          • Trial offers hope of a cure for leukaemia
          • From operating theatre to art gallery
          • Exercise tests Trust's emergency response
          • Busy box beats hospital boredom
          • Magical garden installation supports hospital garden appeal
          • Festive shoppers can make patients' wishes come true
          • Stoptober helps dozens kick the smoking habit
          • Hospital heroes recognised in Trust Awards
          • Trust embraces artificial intelligence to improve patient care
          • Talking tea and training with Harmonia Village manager Carrie Mandeville
          • Thank you for making mum's wedding dreams come true
          • 1,000 patients helped back on their feet again thanks to national pilot at Kent and Canterbury Hospital
          • Patient experience proves vital in improving diabetes care
          • Medics' base camp trek raises thousands for bowel cancer research
          • Neil offers hope to people living with cancer
          • The Little Things make a big difference thanks to charitable junior doctor
          • Age is no barrier to having fun for patients at the William Harvey Hospital
          • Hospital scheme named Patient Safety Project of the Year
          • Friends donate almost £190,000 to William Harvey Hospital this year
        • News archive 2018
          
          • Stay well this winter
          • Enjoy summer and keep well during the heat
          • Patient story - Philippa welcomes baby Rosie
          • Massive improvement proposed for stroke services in Kent and Medway
          • Improving end-of-life care
          • Consultation launches on proposed improvements to stroke services in Kent and Medway
          • Trust Governors appoint new Chairman
          • Listening events to hear views on future stroke services in Kent and Medway
          • Canterbury Golf Club donates sensory machine to K&C children's centre
          • Giving our new staff the best possible start
          • Surgeon receives certificate of excellence from patients’ healthcare review website
          • East Kent residents urged to help shape future stroke services
          • National Apprenticeship Week
          • ‘Hospital at Home’ team win national nursing award
          • East Kent Hospitals appoints Susan Acott as Chief Executive
          • Medical school ‘an essential boost’ for health and care
          • East meets East Kent
          • Last weeks of stroke consultation: Have your say
          • President of the Royal College of Pathologists visits East Kent
          • Recording of X-Ray images at East Kent Hospitals
          • Last chance to have your say on the future of stroke services
          • Getting dressed can help you ‘get your spark back’
          • NHS thanks everyone who took part in Kent and Medway stroke consultation
          • NHS creates social enterprise to run hospital support services
          • Care packs to offer support to relatives
          • QEQM team presented with certificate in NHS 70th birthday awards
          • Raising awareness of bladder cancer
          • St Augustines day room
          • East Kent Hospitals shortlisted for two national awards!
          • East Kent Hospitals takes steps to cut waits for emergency and planned care ahead of winter
          • NHS in Kent and Medway publish stroke consultation activity report and consultation response report
          • Kent and Canterbury doctor named in NHS ‘Top 70’
          • Dr Chi Davies is shortlisted for NHS 70 Lifetime Achievement Award
          • East Kent Hospitals staff take starring role in biggest ever NHS recruitment drive
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          • CQC recognises examples of outstanding practice, but there’s more work to do
          • Trust wins £6m bid to improve A&Es before winter
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          • New maternity app provides pregnancy information at the touch of a button
          • QEQM’s new communication and social therapy group lifts-off
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          • EKHUFT's midwives and doctors continue HEP work in Ethiopia
          • New chemotherapy bell helps patients to call time on cancer
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          • Hospital robotics showcase delights and inspires the next generation
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        • News archive 2017
          
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          • Get to know your local health services this winter
          • Frank gets home with Home First
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          • Commissioners to consider next steps for east Kent hospital services
          • Improving hospital services in east Kent: how decisions are made and what happens next
          • Support for a medical school for Kent and Medway
          • Commissioners agree next steps for east Kent hospital services
          • East Kent Hospitals helps those affected by alcohol and drugs
          • Local people thanked for their “vital” contribution to East Kent Hospitals’ research
          • Trust doctor wins professional excellence award
          • New MRI scanners unveiled at Kent and Canterbury Hospital
          • NHS leaders call for new medical school
          • A&E waits improving across east Kent
          • East Kent Hospitals urges people to be prepared for flu and winter
          • East Kent Hospitals is focused on improving waiting times for patients
          • East Kent Hospitals appoints Susan Acott as interim chief executive
          • Emergency care improvement in east Kent
          • Social Media Week
          • East Kent Hospitals appoints interim Chair
          • Maternity bereavement suite opened at Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital
          • East Kent Hospitals CEO to take up new post with The King's Fund
          • East Kent Hospitals takes steps to shorten A&E waits
          • PLACE survey of 2017 shows more improvements for East Kent Hospitals
          • Temporary changes at Kent & Canterbury Hospital
          • East Kent Hospitals’ annual members’ meeting
          • Approval given for dementia centre of excellence funding
          • Pamela helps researchers to understand eye disease
          • Annual members meeting
          • Ben is the top trainee in the country
          • Exciting haemophilia research to start at Kent & Canterbury
          • Come and have your say: Maternity services in east Kent
          • William Harvey staff help to save mum and unborn son
          • East Kent Hospitals appoints new Director of Finance and Performance
          • Praise for ‘Employee of the Month’ Bev
          • Swallow screen helps vulnerable patients
          • Patient Story - Stroke survivor Graham Lewis
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          • Hope for Tomorrow brings cancer care closer to home
          • Kent & Canterbury Hospital’s Urgent Care Centre to treat walk-in minor injuries from 19 June
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          • Update on temporary changes to some services
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          • NHS and social care leaders make ‘case for change’ in Kent and Medway
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          • Finance chief set to retire from full-time NHS service after 34 years
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          • Celia Blakey Unit receives civic opening
          • Election forces change to CHEK public meeting on Friday 28 April due to purdah
          • CQC recognises significant improvements for East Kent Hospitals’ patients
          • Bright Futures returns
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          • WHH NICU takes further steps to Baby Bliss Charter
          • Patients asked to bring medicines into hospital
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          • East Kent Hospitals’ science team manages the microbes
          • New MRI unit for Kent and Canterbury Hospital will cut waits
          • Disability parking changes for East Kent Hospitals
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          • Trust to exit quality special measures following improvements for patients but further progress on finances needed
          • East Kent Hospitals recognised for research excellence
          • Focus on Diabetes
          • Nursing and Midwifery Open Day - 4 March 2017
          • Haematology team works closely with patients at Kent and Canterbury Hospital
          • The Twitter storm is coming!
          • East Kent Hospitals shortlisted for Research and Patient Engagement Awards
          • Ken’s dialysis is a home from home
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