About us
We are a large hospitals Trust, with five hospitals and a number of community clinics serving around 700,000 people in east Kent.
We provide some specialist services for a wider population, including renal services in Medway and Maidstone and a cardiac service for all of Kent based at William Harvey Hospital, Ashford.
We have a strong interest in improving the health of the communities we serve through research and innovation. Our hospitals take part in many clinical research studies and recruit high numbers of patients into research trials. Kent and Medway’s Clinical Trials Unit is based in our Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother Hospital, Margate.
As a teaching Trust we play a vital role in the education and training of doctors, nurses and other healthcare professionals, working closely with local universities and Kings College University in London.
Our hospitals
As one of the largest acute Trusts in the country, we have five sites across east Kent, caring for a population of around 700,000 people and providing specialist services for the wider population.
The Trust has more than 1,000 beds, and provides a range of core and specialist healthcare services. We receive more than 200,000 emergency attendances, around 100,000 inpatient spells and 750,000 outpatient attendances per year.
William Harvey Hospital, Ashford
Provides a range of emergency and elective services as well as maternity, trauma, orthopaedic, paediatric and neonatal intensive care services. The hospital has a specialist cardiology unit, a state of the art pathology lab and a robotic pharmacy facility.
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital, Margate
Provides a range of emergency and elective surgeries and comprehensive trauma, orthopaedic, obstetrics, general surgery and paediatric services. It has a specialist centre for gynaecological cancer and modern operating theatres, ITU facilities, a Cardiac Catheter Laboratory and Cancer Unit.
Kent and Canterbury Hospital, Canterbury
Provides a range of surgical and medical survives. It is a central base for many specialist services in the area including renal, vascular, international radiology, urology, dermatology, neurology and haemophilia services. It also provides a 24/7 minor injuries unit.
The Royal Victoria Hospital, Folkestone
Provides a range of local services including a minor injuries unit, outpatients department and diagnostic services.
Buckland Hospital, Dover
Provides a range of local outpatient services including minor injuries unit, renal satellite services, day hospital services, child health and child development services and diagnostic facilities.
Our vision, mission and values
Our vision is:
great healthcare from great people
Our mission is improving health and wellbeing and our vision is to deliver great healthcare from great people.
Everything we do is underpinned by our values:
- People feel cared for
- Safe
- Respected
- Confident we are making a difference
