Generous entertainers donated money towards a wheelchair for a disabled child that will help to improve her quality of life.

Plans to extend the waiting room of A&E at Darent Valley Hospital are to go before councillors tonight.

A family is calling on the community to support a charity darts marathon to help Tommy Wood, a keen young footballer struck down by a rare disease.

A disabled woman had to undergo emergency surgery after doctors failed to spot two severed tendons.

A patient was left stunned when a single call after his hospital appointment was cancelled doubled his usual monthly phone bill.

A simple colour-coded wristband scheme is helping medical staff get patients back on their feet.

An investigation has been launched after a vulnerable patient was found walking the streets at night after leaving hospital without anyone noticing.

A round-the-clock centre to help rape victims has opened in Kent after years of the county being the only one in the region without one.

Patients faced long delays because of a traffic jam at Medway Maritime Hospital yesterday afternoon.

Pest controllers have been drafted into a Kent hospital more than 300 times after vermin was found - including a rat in an A&E resuscitation unit.

Bosses at a mental health unit have applied to build a higher perimeter fence to stop patients escaping over the top.

A funeral parlour is pioneering a scheme to send pacemakers removed from the dead to be re-used in the developing world.

A weeks-old twin tragically died in his mother's arms after she took both children to bed and fell asleep, an inquest's heard.

A woman has told jurors how she was left feeling shocked and violated after allegedly being sexually abused by a family doctor.

A Zumbathon is being planned at Dover Leisure Centre to raise money for a four-year-old boy who has been given only a year to live.

Kent's biggest maternity unit has today been told it must take urgent action to improve the safety of women giving birth after failing an inspection.

It is hoped a temporary solution to the issue of patients having to travel off the Island for dialysis treatment could be on the way.

Dover Mayor Cllr Ronnie Philpott says she intends to honour all her commitments in the coming weeks, despite fracturing a bone in her arm in a fall.

A five-year-old boy has been hailed a hero after helping to save his mum's life after she fell into a diabetic coma.

A mother's world fell apart when she spent three weeks thinking she was going to die after being wrongly diagnosed with a brain tumour.