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Patients are at the heart of clinical research projects taking place in NHS hospitals up and down the country. That’s why we have volunteers like Bill, who helps the Trust as a Patient Research Ambassador. 

Like many other NHS Trusts in the Country, the Emergency Department at Medway Maritime Hospital is experiencing extremely high numbers of attendances. Some of these patients could have been treated more appropriately elsewhere. 

Team Maia is our award-winning team of maternity midwives who provide dedicated care to women who have their labour induced. It was established to ensure all women receive the best of care and support no matter how they experience labour and birth.

To mark World Hepatitis Day (Saturday 28 July 2018), our staff at Medway Maritime Hospital have been raising awareness of the blood disease Hepatitis C. 

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has today published a report based on its inspection of Medway Maritime Hospital in April and May 2018.

Since we welcomed the da Vinci robot to the Trust last year, more than 130 prostate and kidney patients have benefitted from this state of the art technology. Here, Medway resident Gino Manzotti talks about his experience of robotic surgery.

The Critical Care Rehabilitation Team is a specialist therapy team working in our Intensive Care Unit (ICU). Research has shown that early rehabilitation for patients in critical care has many benefits, including improvements in strength, functional ability, quality of life and a reduced stay in hospital.

Ursilla came to England from Trinidad in 1954 and trained as a nurse, working at Chatham’s All Saints Hospital. Now living in Gravesend, she looks back on the changes she experienced working in the NHS.

Staff at Medway Maritime Hospital came together on Thursday 5 July to commemorate the 70^th anniversary of the NHS.

Lesley Dwyer, Chief Executive of Medway NHS Foundation Trust, is to leave the organisation to return home to Australia where she will take up a new appointment.