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		<title>Free webinar to help make managing medications easier for patients</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[Kent Community Health NHS Foundation Trust (KCHFT) is hosting a free public webinar to help people better understand how medicine services can support independence and wellbeing. If you, or someone you care for, often struggle to manage your medicines safely, this&#160;managing medicines and maintaining independence&#160;webinar is for you. You will hear from pharmacy professionals explaining [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>‘I struggle to think where I would be without the help of Safe Havens’</title>
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					<description><![CDATA[A powerful film showing how adults can be supported with their mental health during a crisis has been published by NHS Kent and Medway. It highlights the story of Vincent, one of thousands of people who accessed the service to get vital support with his mental health. He said: “Given the way my life went [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>There&#8217;s still time to get vaccinated</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2026 22:21:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[People who have not yet been vaccinated are being urged to boost their protection this winter with flu and Covid-19 vaccines. Health chiefs are making the fresh appeal after 87 people spent Christmas Day in hospital with flu in Kent and Medway, according to NHS figures. If you are eligible for winter vaccines, you can [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Successful Sickle Cell Awareness End of Year Event brings community together at Darent Valley Hospital</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 18:48:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Darent Valley Hospital proudly hosted a highly successful Sickle Cell Awareness End of Year Event on Sunday 7 December, bringing together more than 150 attendees, including patients, families, and multidisciplinary staff. The event highlighted the Trust’s ongoing commitment to raising awareness and supporting individuals and families affected by sickle cell disease. We were honoured to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Stop the spread of flu and avoid being a statistic this Christmas</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Dec 2025 18:43:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The number of people with flu in a Kent and Medway hospital rose by 16 per cent in just one week, figures out today show.&#160; Health bosses are urging all eligible people to come forward and be vaccinated ahead of Christmas to protect loved ones and reduce pressure on the NHS.&#160; Latest figures published today [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>New Greenhithe Medical Centre to Boost Local Health Services for Residents</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2025 14:04:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Dartford Borough Council Cabinet has agreed plans to work with the NHS Kent and Medway Integrated Care Board (ICB) to deliver a new Medical Centre at Steele Avenue, Greenhithe. This modern facility will bring two local GP practices — Swanscombe and Bean Partnership and Temple Hill Group — together under one roof, replacing three outdated [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Let&#8217;s talk EBSA</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2025 13:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Emotional Based School Avoidance is a subject that has become a widespread situation for many families. Once referred to as ‘school refusal’ – experts realised that this was not the correct term. Most of these children want to be in school. They want to learn, but situations and barriers make it impossible for them to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>New resource to help care home residents with eating and drinking</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Nov 2025 21:32:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A new NHS resource, aimed at helping care home residents with common eating and drinking issues, is now live and ready to download. The Kent Manual for Mealtimes has been developed by NHS speech and language therapists and dietitians and is designed to help people living in care homes get support to improve their mealtime [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Dartford and Gravesham implements Clinisys ICE for radiology and pathology orders</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2025 15:36:30 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The successful go-live for the order communications system lays a foundation for further IT developments at the Trust and its pathology network Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust has taken a significant step towards a more digital future by rolling out electronic test ordering using Clinisys ICE. The trust deployed the order communications system to around [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Local care company achieves world-leading score for employee engagement</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Feb 2025 14:46:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Home Instead Dartford has been ranked within the top five percent of health and social care companies worldwide in terms of care professional satisfaction. All employees of the home care company were invited to take part in an anonymous survey by independent employee engagement experts WorkBuzz. Home Instead Dartford is delighted to have received an [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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