Our hospitals

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust is a large acute hospital Trust employing a team of more than 7,000 full and part time clinical and non-clinical staff who provide a full range of general hospital services and some areas of specialist complex care to around 760,000 people. Our Trust also provides specialist cancer services to 1.9 million people across the region through the Kent Oncology Centre and sexual health services to the population of Kent and Medway.

Our values

Patient first

We always put our patients first.

Respect

We respect and value our patients, visitors and staff.

Innovation

We take every opportunity to improve services.

Delivery

We aim to deliver high standards and efficiency in everything we do.

Excellence

We take every opportunity to enhance our reputation.

Tunbridge Wells

Tunbridge Wells Hospital in Pembury is the first NHS hospital in England to provide en-suite, single rooms for all inpatients. The hospital is seen nationally as an example of best practice in the design of patient-safe facilities and has attracted widespread international interest.

It is a designated Trauma Unit, undertakes the Trust’s emergency surgery and is the main site for Women’s and Children’s, and Orthopaedic services. The Education Centre at Tunbridge, with its full resuscitation simulation suite, enables the Trust to offer excellent clinical training. Construction work on a new six storey medical student accommodation and teaching building is underway.

The hospital is a short distance from Tunbridge Wells town centre and there are good public transport links with buses running to the hospital seven days a week.

Maidstone

Maidstone Hospital benefits from its central county location. It is home to the Kent Oncology Centre – the fourth largest oncology service in the county.

The Trust offers PET/CT (Positron Emission Tomography – Computed Tomography) services in a dedicated building and has a rolling programme to upgrade its Linear Accelerator radiotherapy machines. The hospital also has a state-of-the-art Birth Centre, a dedicated ward for respiratory services and an Academic Centre with a 200 seat auditorium.

The hospital is a short distance from Maidstone town centre and there are good public transport links. Barming Station, with services into London Victoria, is less than one mile from the hospital. Buses run to the hospital seven days a week and the Trust provides a free shuttle bus between the hospital sites for all staff.