All Posts in Category: Health

This week Public Health England and the NHS have joined forces to launch a new mental health support and awareness tool. The Every Mind Matters website offers simple steps to help people to look after their mental health, improve their mental well-being and support people around them. The easy-to-use website…

In mid-August, a public consultation on where to site a new NHS Urgent Treatment Centre began. Members of the public are being asked to comment on the whether the new centre should be sited here in Dartford at Darent Valley Hospital or at Gravesham Community Hospital. The new centre will…

This week, a bill to make changes to the organ donation system passed its final reading in The House of Lords unopposed, meaning it will now become law. When it comes into force, this new law, The Organ Donation (Deemed Consent) Bill, will mean that people in England will have…

This month it was announced that Darent Valley Hospital is one of three hospitals in Kent and Medway to have been chosen to have a 24/7 hyper-acute stroke unit. The announcement by the Stroke Joint Committee of Clinical Commissioning Groups means that in future, patients who have stroke, will be taken…