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Subscribe The relocating process for the "Come Unto Me" sculpture is underway, with the entire 10-piece grouping being placed in its new location just east of the new hospital's Galleria entrance facility. The work had been located in a small garden courtyard located northeast of the previous main entrance area to the Medical Center. Installed on campus in January 2009, the work shows a seated Christ inviting children and adults to come forward in welcome. Physicians, nurses, and patients of all ages are depicted. Victor Issa, a sculptor living in Loveland, Colorado, created the grouping for ...

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...

Government moves to rein in Kent councils' commercial property deals  |  Updated: 08:26, 16 December 2020 Customers shopping in the Wickes DIY store in Gravesham are unlikely to know that they are doing so on a site acquired by the council for £8.5m two years ago. While it might seem odd, commercial acquisitions have, for many authorities, become a way of balancing the books and raising income in the face of dwindling government grants. A Wickes store. Stock picture: Google Street View But coronavirus and the two national lockdowns have left many councils contemplating the likelihood of ...

Gravesham council leader calls for the NHS to break its silence on the pressure in Kent's hospitals  |  Updated: 15:14, 14 December 2020 The leader of a Kent council has called for hospital staff to be able to speak out about the pressures they are facing because of Covid-19. Cllr John Burden, head of Gravesham council, believes if people had a better picture of the strain on our health services it would encourage them to comply with Tier 3 restrictions. Cllr John Burden wants hospital staff to be able to speak out He has written a letter to the borough's MP Adam Holloway, asking if he can ...