A midwife who carried out medical procedures she was not trained to perform has been struck off.

Medics took to the picket line outside East Kent's hospitals in protest against the government's contract changes.

Hundreds of junior doctors across Medway are on a 48-hour strike from 8am today.

Kent's junior doctors are joining colleagues across the country in a third strike this morning as the disagreement over new contracts continues.

Nearly 3,000 people in Medway could be living with a serious vascular condition with the vast majority of them smokers.

A Kent sailor has been forced to withdraw from the GB team set to compete in this year's Olympics due to ongoing cancer treatment.

The KM has launched a petition calling for a walk-in health centre to be opened Maidstone to ease the pressure on our GPs and A&E.

An inspirational teacher left disabled after a minor operation is hoping to become the first person to travel across the Sahara in a wheelchair.

Years of bullying by other dogs left to fend for themselves in a squalid garden means Boris will lose his ears - but you can help him.

A fire ladder was needed to get a sick lorry driver down from his cab.

Hundreds of patients have been sent for treatment at other hospitals after a trust was forced to cancel its operations.

A pensioner says he's amazed nobody was killed after a hit and run driver careered into a parked car and ploughed into his garden wall before fleeing.

A mum has issued a warning to other parents after her daughter found a three-inch blade embedded in a new toy.

Virgin Care’s £128.4 million bid to take over adult community care for parts of Kent has been put on hold following a legal challenge.

The government says it is not cost-effective to roll out the meningitis B jab, despite a campaign supported by 800k people after a Kent toddler died.

The first group of overseas nurses have arrived at Medway Maritime Hospital as the trust attempts to tackle its staffing shortage.

An arrest warrant against a doctor wanted in connection with the death of a Kent teacher has been dropped by the Crown Prosecution Service.

NHS bosses have revealed plans to include fast-food-free zones and safe green spaces in a new housing scheme in Kent.

Inspectors have condemned the appalling standards at a brain injury centre after patients were exposed to violent attacks, including a sexual assault.

Suggestions that the chairman of South East Coast Ambulance Service has been ordered to leave his post over a controversial policy have been denied.