Medical services need to be streamlined or health bosses could face a budget shortfall of £20 million by 2019.

The chair of a review into standards of care met with patients to discuss their experience of the William Harvey Hospital ahead of an inspection.

Hospital bosses have been forced to suspend specialist surgery for cancer patients after five deaths from avoidable complications.

The number of teenage conceptions across Kent has fallen by almost a third over the last five years, new figures reveal.

Kent's largest hospital has been slammed in a damning report after inspectors found A&E patients waiting more than 11 hours in filthy conditions.

People in Thanet can find out how to be involved in decision making for local healthcare at a meeting on Tuesday, March 11.

British actor Winston Ellis met Seasalter youngster Reece Puddington after reading about his six-year cancer battle.

A haemophiliac patient claims a hospital is putting lives at risk by not having vital medication available.

The odds were stacked against brave Caitlin-Rose Faber... when she had a stroke before she was even born.

A family are in shock after a father suddenly collapsed while wallpapering his bedroom when an aneurysm burst in his brain - and died hours later.

A dying woman is battling for a change in the law - after washing her husband's clothes gave her cancer.

A family doctor who sexually assaulted patients, including a one-year-old, and took indecent photos has been struck off the medical register.

Former Dartford GP Andrew Doyle asked a patient to kill him after sending her violent and sexually explicit material, a medical tribunal has heard.

A grateful wife has taken to twitter in a moving message to hospital staff who saved her husband's life.

Ashford's MP has met with NHS bosses over plans to transfer high risk surgery from the William Harvey to the Kent and Canterbury.

A brave student who fought off cancer three times has lost his battle for life... but five others' lives have been saved by his organs.

Siblings will sue the NHS over hospital blunders that include sending their terminally mum home with injectable morphine - without dosage guidance

Andy Warman is sizing up hills and hitting the streets on long distance runs to support Bliss, the premature baby charity that helped his sister.

A new breast cancer unit will give patients all they need at a one-stop clinic stopping visits to numerous departments and even trips to London.

An MP is demanding answers after all high-risk general surgery in east Kent was centralised amid patient safety fears - but he was not told.