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Get your Covid test

Did you know you can now get Covid tests from your pharmacy?

All of us are now being encouraged to take a Covid test regularly even if we don't have any symptoms.

Your vaccine story

I couldn’t get there fast enough!

How does it feel when you get your vaccine call up? This week we chatted with Lesley whose had her first Covid vaccine.

25 January 2021

mental health crisis cards

Don't struggle alone

There is help for you and the people around you.

30 November 2020

Support for you

How are you doing in lockdown 2.0?

As we all face another lockdown and uncertain times ahead, please remember that there is support is available to you, and your family, during lockdown 2.0

5 November 2020

pharmacies and covid the reality

Pharmacies & Covid : The Reality

We have today published a joint report with Healthwatch Medway detailing feedback from 101 pharmacies across Kent and Medway. The report details what it has been like during COVID-19 and what lessons have been learnt.

5 November 2020

blood tests back at Darent

Blood tests back at Darent Valley Hospital thanks to your stories

We’ve been hearing stories from people in North Kent about huge queues and long waits to get their blood tests done at Gravesham Community Hospital.

22 October 2020

Covid vaccine

Have you booked your Covid vaccine yet?

Anyone aged 38 or over , is now entitled to get their Covid vaccination.

42 year olds can get the vaccine

42 year olds and over can now get their vaccine

The Covid vaccine programme has today been extended and anyone over the age of 42 can now book their vaccine.

end of life care

Have you experienced End of Life care services recently?

The NHS in Kent & Medway are looking to hear feedback from people who have had experience of end of life care services. They want to learn from your feedback to inform a new strategy to help them improve the care offered to people.

Latest reports and publications

What did people tell us in March?

What did you tell us in March?

As we reached a year since Covid restrictions began, people continue...

helping our volunteers to learn digital skills

Helping our volunteers to learn digital skills

During the pandemic, we wanted to ensure that our volunteers could...

You can the change

Your feedback can help generate change

Every day people contact us to share their story about health and...

Your feedback is heard

Read what people told us in the last two weeks of Feb

Every day we listen to people who tell us their experience of using...