News

Medway NHS Foundation Trust’s Emergency Department (ED) has been awarded the Acute Service Redesign Initiative Award at the HSJ Value Awards for its ‘Get it Right First Time’ COVID-19 initiative.

David Brake becomes new Lead Governor for Medway NHS Foundation Trust

Please note that the Children’s Emergency Department at Medway Maritime Hospital has relocated to within the main Emergency Department building.

London Ambulance Service worker Tom Smy had a very special surprise guest at his 21^st birthday party – the hospital consultant who saved his life when he was born.

The Annual Members’ Meeting of Medway NHS Foundation Trust will take place at 6pm on Thursday 16 September. 

A new service to ‘fast track’ patients who need urgent surgical assessment is now open at Medway NHS Foundation Trust.

Local people are being encouraged to respond to a public consultation on proposals to relocate Kent and Medway’s one remaining ‘dormitory’ style inpatient mental health ward – Ruby Ward – from Medway Maritime Hospital to a new purpose-built unit in Maidstone.

The Care Quality Commission has published a report following the inspections of services that took place in April and May 2021.

Like many other NHS Trusts in the Country, the Emergency Department at Medway Maritime Hospital is experiencing extremely high numbers of attendances. We would urge you to consider other more appropriate and quicker options before visiting the Emergency Department

To ensure that we protect our patients, as well as visitors and staff, from the ongoing risks of COVID-19, appropriate infection prevention and control measures will remain in place here at Medway Maritime Hospital for the immediate future.