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Darent Valley Hospital starts coronavirus vaccine programme to help protect health workers and patients against Covid-19  |  Updated: 20:00, 27 December 2020 Coronavirus vaccines have been issued to more front-line workers as another hospital started rolling out the jab. Darent Valley Hospital in Dartford started giving the vaccine to its staff today and hailed it as "a very special day". Darent Valley Hospital in Dartford started its coronavirus vaccine programme today. Picture: Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust The first to receive the Pfizer-BioNTech jab was Dr Sanjay Kuravinakop, the hos...

Darent Valley Hospital staff waiting for news on arrival of vaccine doses weeks after NHS England told them to be ready  |  Updated: 17:50, 18 December 2020 Anxious hospital workers say a lack of news from NHS chiefs and the government about the delayed arrival of vaccine doses is adding to staff stress. The wait for the vaccine at Darent Valley Hospital in Dartford has been made worse after trust chiefs were originally told by NHS England last month they would be one of the first to receive supplies of the Pfizer jab. Darent Valley was initially included as one of 53 sites to issue the vac...

Major patient backlog at Medway Maritime Hospital, Gillingham  |  Updated: 18:12, 16 December 2020 Emergency planners in Kent have met over concerns ambulances won't be able to get some patients into hospitals. Increasing Covid numbers have seen casualty departments stretched to their limits. Medway Maritime Hospital But there also concerns Operation Stack may be introduced in the coming days to deal with cross-Channel traffic issues. This would bring increased congestion on Kent's road network, meaning more problems for beleaguered ambulance staff. At the forefront of the problems is Medwa...

Published: December 10, 2020 at 10:01 am Just west of Chichester on the West Sussex coast, Fishbourne Roman Palace is the largest residential building from Roman times to be found in Britain. It was stumbled upon by accident in 1960 when the excavation equipment of a Portsmouth Water Company workman, digging a trench in a local field, hit some rubble. But this was not any old rubble; the rocks ultimately turned out to be part of the boundary wall of a huge Roman structure. Advertisement The site from Roman Britain drew archaeologists from across the world to assist with the dig fo...