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Have you say on Kent County Councils draft 5 year plan
Kent County Council have just launched a new consultation on their 5 year plan 'Your Future, Our Priority' and want to know your thoughts.
14 January 2020
News
First page of the patient experience report
Focus on Patient Experience
NHS Trusts all over Kent come to Healthwatch regularly seeking guidance on how to involve patients, carers and families more constructively in their services.  In this report, we discuss patient experience.
9 January 2020
Report
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Getting NHS Dental care
What is available on the NHS? What do you have to pay for? How much is it going to cost? These are some of the questions you have asked that our leaflet has the answers to. 
6 January 2020
Advice and Information
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Kent and Medway Safeguarding Adults Board Annual Report
Read Kent and Medway Safeguarding Adults Board's 2018/19 annual report, acknowledging the large range of work done to safeguard vulnerable people who may be at risk across Kent and Medway.
3 January 2020
Report
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Have you used adult social care recently?
Can you share your experience to help improve it for others? What could be improved? What worked well? Did you get the response you expected?
5 December 2019
News
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My life as a carer – one of seven million stories
Three in five of us will become an unpaid carer at some point in our lives. Kate* tells us about what it was like becoming a carer for her husband and the difficulties they faced.
20 November 2019
Blog
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How easy is it to attend a hospital appointment if you use a communication aid?
That's the question we asked ourselves when we visited Tunbridge Wells Hospital recently.
15 November 2019
Report
Image of SECAmb's nomination promo poster. It has an illustration of members of Ambulance and NHS 111 staff. standing next to a huge star with the text, "People's Hero Award".
Nominate your ambulance service hero!
South East Coast Ambulance (SECAmb) want you to nominate an ambulance service or NHS 111 hero in a new award to be presented at SECAmb’s annual staff awards.
14 November 2019
News
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Talking about End of Life services
We recently had the opportunity to chat with a group of Carers about End of Life services in North Kent.
14 November 2019
News
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Tips to de-stress at work and home
For Stress Awareness Week, we created a space in our office for team members to share their de-stressing tips they use at work. At the end of the week this is what we got!
12 November 2019
Advice and Information
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Special Educational Needs : a new pathway
We've been helping decision makers to develop a new pathway for children and young people who have special educational needs.
11 November 2019
News
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Stroke patients being heard loud and clear
Together with the Stroke Association and Healthwatch Medway, we have set up the Stroke Co-Design Group to ensure the voice of patients and carers is clearly heard during the design of our new stroke services in Kent & Medway.
7 November 2019
News