A pharmacy has announced it will close after 14 years, blaming increasing difficulties working with the NHS and concerns over staff safety.

A shortage of places has led a council to consider proposals to create and operate its own care home.

An MP has blasted a council’s objection to plans for a ‘vital’ integrated health hub in a move which she says ‘beggars belief’.

Experts reveal what checking your phone first thing in the morning does to your brain.

A 24-year-old who has battled food addiction and crippling anxiety that kept him housebound is now making huge changes.

A mum who rushed to hospital convinced she was in labour was wrongly discharged, only to give birth nine weeks early to a baby boy at home.

A winter flu crisis is crippling overwhelmed hospitals across Kent as a record number of patients endure long waits for a bed.

With Kent’s hospitals gripped by a winter flu crisis, we asked the county’s MPs for their thoughts on the alarming waiting times in A&E.

Concerns have been raised over the number of Kent fire service staff who have been off sick for mental health reasons.

The teenage parents of a five-month-old baby have been left heartbroken after he was diagnosed with leukaemia.

The opening of a gym in a new multi-million-pound leisure complex has been pushed back.

A six-year-old who died from incurable cancer has been laid to rest, with mourners hearing the first reading of a book about her life.

A swimmer with a medical condition which needs the use of a snorkel says he was “humiliated” when told to leave a leisure centre’s pool due to a ban.

Bosses at a members club have launched an investigation after New Year celebrations were halted when tear gas was let off in the gents’ toilets.

Work on a ‘health campus’ and retirement village could start this year after fresh CGI designs surfaced showing how the finished project could look.

Am ambulance service is urging people to think before calling 999 as it expects demand to stay high into the new year.

We meet the people keeping the 999 and 111 control room going throughout the holiday period.

Controversial plans for a new estate on the edge of a village could swamp healthcare provision at several doctors' surgeries.

A personal trainer coaching young athletes in a town plagued with stories of unruly youths says there are also dedicated, hard-working kids there.

Fresh images show the rapid progress being made to rebuild a row of houses destroyed in a devastating gas explosion.