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The NHS is turning 70 on 5 July 2018 and here at Medway we will be marking the occasion with a number of activities involving our staff and local community. The centrepiece of our celebrations will be a summer fair on Saturday 7 July, during the anniversary week.

In April 1948, inspired by her grandmother, an untrained midwife and her father, a battlefield stretcher-bearer during the First World War, Enid Osborne took her first steps to become part of the NHS legacy by enrolling to become a student nurse.

In 70 days the NHS turns 70 and to mark the milestone occasion The Medway Hospital Charity is asking the people of Medway and Swale to raise a cuppa to celebrate our wonderful health service.

Thank you to everyone who joined us for our first charity quiz night.

We are holding a members’ event on Tuesday 15 May in the Education Centre at Medway Maritime Hospital.

Thank you so much for supporting our 2018 Easter Knitting appeal to raise money for Medway Hospital Charity. 

Medway NHS Foundation Trust Governors and Chair Stephen Clark have invited local residents to attend a drop-in session on Monday 23 April to find out more about the upcoming opportunity to become a hospital governor. 

Like many other NHS Trusts, our Emergency Department (ED) is currently experiencing high numbers of attendances. Some patients attending ED could be treated more appropriately elsewhere; please consider other more appropriate and quicker options before visiting.

The public consultation on the future of urgent stroke services in Kent and Medway will end at midnight on Friday 20 April.

Medway NHS Foundation Trust’s Chief Executive Lesley Dwyer has been named by the Health Service Journal as one of the top 50 NHS chief executives in the country.