News

Voting has now closed and results of the election will be announced soon.

Across our services and disciplines, our doctors and nurses are working with our patients to develop and trial new clinical procedures, treatments and medicines.

The ‘Hello, my name is...’ campaign was created by Dr Kate Granger MBE, a registrar in elderly medicine who developed terminal cancer at the age of 29.

In addition to the more traditional ways of letting us have your views such as patient surveys and PALS, we are developing a network of people who are keen to be more engaged in the hospital as we work to improve services for the future.

Katie and Cookie are the two therapy dogs that regularly visit the hospital to bring cheer to patients across our departments. The pair are very popular with all of our patients, young and old, and have one of the biggest Twitter followings of anyone working at the Trust!

The contribution that volunteers give to us, and to our patients, is outstanding. Their drive and enthusiasm is second to none.

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.