We provide wide-ranging NHS care for people in the community, in a range of settings including people’s own homes, nursing homes, health clinics, community hospitals, urgent treatment centres and mobile units.
We are one of the largest NHS community health providers in England, serving a population of 3.6million across Kent, East Sussex and London.
We employ more than 5,000 staff, including doctors, community nurses, physiotherapists, dietitians and many other healthcare professionals.
We became a foundation trust on 1 March 2015. In this section, you can find out more about who we are and what we do; our aims; how we are governed and the role of the trust’s Board and Council of Governors, as well as how we make sure we provide quality care. If you’re interested in working for us, then you can find out more here too.
Find out more about us
Help us
There are many ways you can help us. From being a member or volunteering to fundraising for our charity, we want to hear from you. If you are keen to get involved and help us, then this section is for you. Here, you can learn about what it means to us to be a foundation trust and how you can become a member and join in too. You help our charity – i care – get to where it needs to be; providing items that are above and beyond what the NHS can fund. We’d love to hear from you with any ideas for fundraising. Our army of volunteers makes sure our patients get a little bit of extra help while in our care, as do the League of Friends that can be found in many of our community hospitals.
How you can help us
Engaging with our community
We hold regular engagement events in the communities that we serve. You can find out details of these events by contacting us. If you have any questions, would like to read the documents for the events or want to find out more about how you can become involved please email kentchft.engagement@nhs.net.
Working in partnership statement
We work with a range of local and regional organisations in order to develop and deliver community health and social care services. These organisations include the acute trusts, the clinical commissioning groups and local authorities within Kent and Medway, East Sussex and London.
The trust also works in partnership with its patients, public and other community and voluntary sector groups to make sure that the services it provides are relevant to local people and provided in the best way.