A mother from Aylesham, Kent, who says she pays £2,000 a month for her daughter’s medicinal cannabis supply has called for greater access to the drug on the NHS. Emma Appleby said her daughter Teagan, 15, uses the drug to manage the daily seizures she suffers due to severe epilepsy. Medicinal cannabis became legal in … Read more
A survey of dozens of staff says an increase in funding and a reduction of paperwork is needed. Source link
Ava Stanley from Higham says she “thought she was going to die” when nurses ignored her heart monitor. Source link
After trials in the US, Sweden and at an NHS hospital in Oxford, Prof Rupert McShane, of Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, backed the calls for the NHS to use ketamine to treat drug resistant depression, rather than electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), which he says many patients are “too frightened” to have. Source link
Kim Sampson and Samantha Mulcahy died after giving birth in two East Kent NHS Trust hospitals. Source link
At the heart of the trust’s problems, it seems, is a dysfunctional culture that stretches back almost a decade. In 2015, a review of its maternity services by the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists found multiple problems, including consultants failing to carry out ward rounds, assess women or attend out-of-hours calls. The report was … Read more
Ms Gittos, whose baby Harriet was born at the East Kent trust’s Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital (QEQM) in 2014 and died eight days later, said: “When my daughter Harriet was born, the then head of midwifery was so concerned about safety that she thought that the William Harvey in particular should be closed … Read more
Kent County Council warns about the risk of young people swapping vapes for cigarettes. Source link
After the hearing was adjourned, Ms Sampson’s mother, Yvette, issued a statement which said: “While the feeling of hurt and loss at Kim’s death has never gone away, those feelings have really come to the fore again over the last few weeks as we thought that the time was coming for us to finally get … Read more
Sarah Shingler, chief nursing and midwifery officer and deputy chief executive of East Kent NHS, said: “We continue to work hard to improve our maternity services, including our work to listen to and act on feedback from those using our care. Although a number of changes have been made, we know there is a lot … Read more