Hospitals across Kent are preparing for an influx of patients, with A&E departments already reporting an increase in conditions caused by the heat.

Patients at a medical practice have been left reeling after being told that the private firm running their surgery has suddenly pulled out.

A new care home has moved one step closer to opening its doors after the completion of its marketing suite.

Officials are urging people in Kent to stay indoors during the hottest part of the day as the county is put on heatwave alert.

A roofer has been taken to a London hospital after suffering severe injuries in a fall from a building.

Medway Maritime has been singled out in a key Commons debate today as making the least progress of the 11 hospitals in special measures.

Gordon Henderson took part in a Westminster debate with public health minister, Jane Ellison, regarding Swale's medical services.

Radical plans to close coastguard stations could put Kent lives at risk, according to campaigners fighting the cuts.

A charity claims the scale of the growing problem of so-called "legal highs" is being underestimated - as a crackdown in Kent continues.

Medway Hospital bosses have been summoned to a meeting with senior councillors following another highly critical report into standards.

Children playing with dead rats, used syringes and nappies as rubbish piles up in cul-de-sac

Environmental health bosses say hospital patients are being served up meals from kitchens that are not up to scratch after an inspection.

Kent's largest hospital is to remain in special measures after it was again branded inadequate today following an inspection of every department.

A bus driver allegedly ignored requests to stop and hurled abuse at ambulance crews as they helped an 85-year-old man injured in a fall.

A mother fighting a terminal cancer diagnosis says her miracle baby is giving her the strength to live a normal life.

A petition has been launched amid fears thousands of students will fail to get treated for sexually-transmitted diseases if a clinic closes.

A young girl has faced more in her three years of life than most of us ever will.

Health bosses say they hope to see a doctor's practice re-open soon after ill people were sent miles away for treatment.

A pupil is recovering from an operation after he was knocked unconscious by a shot put during a PE lesson.

More than 60,000 patients will be seen to in outpatient appointments at the new Dover Hospital.