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If you need help to attend an NHS appointment, you may have used the Non Emergency Patient Transport Service to help you get there.
This is a free transport service that is available to some, but not all, patients based on their eligibility.

Every 10 minutes, someone in England is diagnosed with breast cancer. That’s 55,000 women a year but men can get breast cancer too with 370 men receiving diagnosis every year.

A new service dedicated to supporting men who are victims of domestic abuse has been launched in Kent & Medway this week.

Do you or a loved one need help with social care? Read the article below and find out answers to key questions about who can access adult social care and how to pay for it.

aaand breathe. Are you stressed, anxious or depressed? You’re not alone.

In partnership with the King’s Fund, we are calling for urgent action to improve peoples’ experience of delays to their treatment.

If you, or a member or your family, needs help to remain independent at home, gets support for being a carer, or lives in a care home, then chances are they are funded by adult social care services.

In September we reached 2,220 people. This is what they told us.

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Booster vaccinations are already being offered across Kent & Medway and the vaccine programme will now extend to include children aged 12 and above following the recent Government announcement.

Waiting for planned medical care or surgery can be a frustrating time. That’s why it’s so important that while you wait, you get regular, clear and accessible updates so that you can plan your next steps.

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