The report examines dozens of incidents at East Kent Hospitals Trust As the findings of an inquiry into maternity services at East Kent Hospitals Trust are published, the BBC looks into the background ...

Health campaigners say Kent’s largest hospital trust “needs to weed out deadwood” after bosses confirmed they are inviting ...

A damning report into maternity care at East Kent Hospitals Trust today revealed how a string of failures led to 45 needless baby deaths, with mothers sometimes blamed for the tragedy. Here, ...

A&E visits for a group of patients with complex health conditions in an area of Kent have dropped by almost 70% following a trial, an NHS trust says. Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust said ...

A hospital trust has admitted failings in a patient’s end-of-life care after he was denied his final wish to spend his last ...

Twelve-hour corridor waits at a Kent hospitals trust are now the third worst in England as hundreds of patients continue to endure lengthy delays. Alarming new figures show East Kent Hospitals (EKH), ...

Parents at the centre of a hospital trust’s baby deaths scandal must be shown a “more compassionate approach” in their fight for compensation, an inquiry chief has warned. Families have been told they ...

Two mothers who lost their babies at a hospital trust at the centre of a maternity scandal say they felt they were blamed for the deaths. The women spoke to the BBC ahead of the publication of a ...

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