Latest NHS figures show cancer care still needs improvement.

Three more trusts have been placed into financial special measures.

A charity which offers holidays to children with leukaemia has launched a new venture to be there for families from day one of diagnosis.

Patients, visitors and staff will no longer be able to light up at Medway hospital as smoking is banned across the site from today.

A grieving father says his baby died at just 19 days old after being denied a potentially life-saving test - because it was deemed too expensive.

Health chiefs have called for a town centre smoking ban in a bid to cut down the number of people suffering illnesses and diseases from sparking up.

An overstretched doctors' surgery has told its16,000 patients it is booked for the rest of the month as GPs across Medway struggle to cope.

Police have returned to the scene of a medical incident at a GP surgery

Friends of a woman fighting cancer are hoping to make the mum's dream come true - to take her children to Disneyland.

A toddler who survived a horror crash that killed his dad is showing signs of recovery, and has been reunited with his mum.

A council's litter wardens resumed patrols almost a month after the service was suspended after a woman was fined for feeding the ducks.

Dust and water poured into medical centre this afternoon after a hole opened up in the ceiling.

Social services chiefs say there has been a significant increase in the number of claims about abuse against vulnerable adults in the county.

With funding cuts, a shortage of nurses and an increasing demand, just how are Kent's mental health services coping?

A new babygrow designed to help parents resuscitate their child if they stop breathing has been launched.

A Kent runner is determined to make next year's London Marathon the last in a series of challenges in memory of her sister

A mum has launched a fundraising appeal to pay for treatment for her blind toddler that will finally enable him to see the world.

A cancer patient who was denied a stem cell transplant has been told her treatment can go ahead after a peition signed by 10,000 people.

Paramedics were called to a village pub when a customer started hallucinating and struggling to breathe after being served cake laced with cannabis.

Health secretary Jeremy Hunt says new cancer treatment figures don't make comfortable reading, with a Kent CCG among the poorest performers.