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In 2017–18 East Kent Hospitals saw 74.3% of A&E patients within four hours. [16] In August 2018 it announced that planned orthopaedic operations would be moved from the William Harvey Hospital to the Kent and Canterbury Hospital in an attempt to avoid cancellations. [17] In 2018 it had 214 estates and facilities related incidents.
The present hospital, which was designed in the Art Deco style, was opened by the Duke of Kent in 1937. [4] The hospital joined the National Health Service in 1948 [2] and the gynecology department of the hospital moved to Higham Park in 1951 where it would remain for some 30 years. [5] The hospital was considerably expanded in the 1960s. [4]
The French hospital had been arranging English classes for nurses. Patients would have to meet their own travel costs. [21] Inpatient specialist vascular services in the county were centralised to the Kent & Canterbury Hospital, as neither Medway nor East Kent had sufficient staff, activity or facilities on their own for safe services. [22]
Ann Robertson (1934 — 2023), a British nurse, was the founder and lifetime president of the Pilgrims Hospices in East Kent, UK.For over 40 years, she saw the establishment of hospices in three different towns until, by 2023, the clinical staff numbered 200 and thousands of people in the local community, patients and their families, were supported by palliative end of life care each year.
Kent: Canterbury and Thanet Canterbury, Thanet, part of Dover (Eastry area), part of Swale (Faversham area) Part of East Kent District 1994 Kent: Dartford and Gravesham Dartford, Gravesham, Sevenoaks (former Dartford Rural District area), Part of West Kent District 1994 Kent: Maidstone Maidstone, part of Tonbridge and Malling (Malling area)
The hospital, which was designed by William Joseph Jennings and Gray using a compact arrow layout, opened in 1902. [1] The hospital became Canterbury City Mental Hospital in the 1920s and joined the National Health Service as St Martin's Hospital in 1948.
During the Second World War, like many other country estates, the house was requisitioned by the War Office, designated for use by the British Army as a hospital. It remained serving as a hospital post-War, operating as the gynaecology unit of the Kent and Canterbury Hospital from 1951, [2] until it was closed in 1981. [3]
The hospital has its origins in the Margate Cottage Hospital which was established at Victoria Road in Margate in 1876. [1] In the 1920s it was decided to relocate the hospital to its current site in St Peters Road. [1] The new facility was opened by Prince and Princess Arthur of Connaught as the Margate and District General Hospital in July ...