News and events

Meet David – the 1000th patient to undergo specialist treatment for prostate cancer at the Kent Oncology Centre at Maidstone Hospital. David was given LDR (Low Dose Rate) prostate brachytherapy, a treatment for localised prostate…

A new international stroke rehabilitation trial which aims to identify best practice in reducing disability after stroke, has launched at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust (MTW). Four evidence-based mobility therapies will be delivered…

Intensive care staff are using the joy of being outdoors to help critically ill patients recover, as a new Intensive Care Unit (ICU) garden, offering patients and their families a safe, tranquil place to…

Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust (MTW) has been confirmed as the endoscopy training hub for Kent and Medway, part of the South East Academy. The Trust has also been awarded JAG* training provider…

A highly successful automated bed management system that allows MTW to significantly improve bed turnaround times and provide patients with the right care, in the right place, at the right time, has been selected…

Huge congratulations to Nicki Pointer, Clinical Site Manager and Zena Bailey, Emergency Medicine Doctor who, along with their singing peers representing frontline workers from health, social care, police, fire and education as well as…

Patients receiving care at the Kent Oncology Centre at Maidstone Hospital are now using streamlined ‘super clinic’ services after Helen Grant, MP for Maidstone and The Weald, officially opened the Oncology Outpatients Suite on…

When she was a little girl Jo Haworth used to dress up as a nurse and get her grandad to be her patient. Today she is the chief nurse at one of the top…

As part of the NHS’s ongoing commitment to ensure patients get the fastest access to treatment, Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust (MTW) has opened two new emergency service facilities, unveiled by the MP…

Professional photographer Phil Lee, spoke to Patient First about being diagnosed with the eye conditions iritis and macular oedema and the 10 years of treatment he received from the Ophthalmology team at MTW. The…