A £30 million private hospital has opened its doors to its first patients today.

A double transplant saved Paul Dennison's life - now he is appealing for more people to become organ donors.

A four-month-old puppy had an emergency operation to remove a discarded fish hook he swallowed on a beach.

A care home rated inadequate faces closure after inspectors found multiple risks to residents.

A Deal woman who retained most of her hair throughout chemotherapy has put it down to a cold cap she used throughout her treatment.

A new private hospital was forced to go cap in hand to its investors after suffering heavier losses than expected in its first year.

A council office was evacuated after a woman walked in carrying a hand grenade.

Warnings have been issued that a batch of contaminated heroin is circulating across part of Kent after the deaths of two users.

Mother raises concerns over cost of parking at Buckland Hospital in Dover.

The family of a taekwondo champion have remembered a life lived to the full following his death in Australia.

Just days after Tracey Deacon's partner proposed, she was told she had just one year to live - but now the pair have tied the knot at a hospice.

We need your help, experiences and, most importantly, your name signed to help get Maidstone a walk-in health centre.

A GP practice with more than 2,000 patients has been placed in special measures, following an inspection.

A midwife who carried out medical procedures she was not trained to perform has been struck off.

Medics took to the picket line outside East Kent's hospitals in protest against the government's contract changes.

Hundreds of junior doctors across Medway are on a 48-hour strike from 8am today.

Kent's junior doctors are joining colleagues across the country in a third strike this morning as the disagreement over new contracts continues.

Nearly 3,000 people in Medway could be living with a serious vascular condition with the vast majority of them smokers.

A Kent sailor has been forced to withdraw from the GB team set to compete in this year's Olympics due to ongoing cancer treatment.

The KM has launched a petition calling for a walk-in health centre to be opened Maidstone to ease the pressure on our GPs and A&E.