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Here at Medway our breast screening service is helping to save lives. Women between 47 and 73 years are invited every three years for breast screening. Breast screening unit at Medway screens 100,000 women every three years. The unit has been substantially turned around over the last 12 months to become a truly high- performing unit.

Please join us at our event on Thursday 13 July at 6pm

As part of the Trust’s continued efforts to take our care from better to best and on to brilliant, the surgical directorate has made some major changes to how the surgical wards are organised at Medway Maritime Hospital.

Medway NHS Foundation Trust recently launched a ‘Hands Aware, Safe to Care’ campaign to promote better hand hygiene amongst staff, patients and visitors at the Trust.

Please note that the Trust board meeting being held on 6 July 2017 will take place at the Maidstone Suite, Bridgewood Manor Hotel, Walderslade Woods, Chatham, ME5 9AX. The meeting will begin at 1.30pm.

We will be holding an event on Wednesday 14 June at 6pm in the Postgraduate Centre focussing on our improvement plan, Better, Best, Brilliant.

Medway NHS Foundation Trust will be observing the national one-minute silence at 11am today (25 May) to remember the victims of the terrorist attack in Manchester.

Medway NHS Foundation Trust is celebrating the success of a buddying agreement with a major London teaching hospital trust, which has led to significant improvements.

Her Royal Highness the Countess of Wessex visited the maternity bereavement suite at the Medway Maritime Hospital, Gillingham on Wednesday 19 April 2017.

A big thank you from everyone at the Trust to our very generous community here in Medway - and beyond! - who have been so generous in donating easter eggs to our young patients and their families this year.