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To: Wes Streeting, Secretary of State for Health & Social Care
Save Kent & Canterbury Hospital – Restore Full Acute and A&E Services for East Kent
Restore full acute, emergency, and specialist services at Kent & Canterbury Hospital so that East Kent residents have safe, timely access to urgent and life‑saving care.
Why is this important?
For more than two decades, East Kent has lived with the consequences of downgrading Kent & Canterbury Hospital. The result has been dangerous delays, overcrowded emergency departments, and the return of corridor care — something we were promised would never happen again.
Patients in Canterbury, Whitstable, Herne Bay, Faversham and the surrounding villages now face long journeys to overstretched hospitals in Ashford or Margate. Lives are being put at risk. Staff are exhausted. Families are frightened. And our communities have been left without the local emergency and acute services they urgently need.
Kent & Canterbury Hospital once provided excellent, life‑saving care for the whole region. It can — and must — do so again. Restoring full acute and A&E services is essential to ending corridor care, reducing dangerous delays, and giving East Kent the safe, dignified healthcare it deserves.
We call on NHS Kent & Medway and the government to act now
Patients in Canterbury, Whitstable, Herne Bay, Faversham and the surrounding villages now face long journeys to overstretched hospitals in Ashford or Margate. Lives are being put at risk. Staff are exhausted. Families are frightened. And our communities have been left without the local emergency and acute services they urgently need.
Kent & Canterbury Hospital once provided excellent, life‑saving care for the whole region. It can — and must — do so again. Restoring full acute and A&E services is essential to ending corridor care, reducing dangerous delays, and giving East Kent the safe, dignified healthcare it deserves.
We call on NHS Kent & Medway and the government to act now
