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NHS Kent & Medway share their concerns over Highsted Park

When the NHS issues a warning that it is important to ensure that the current population’s access to healthcare services is not negatively impacted as a result of the population growth from new housing developments, you know just how bad things are.

It has been clear to anyone who cared to look that the existing services are already stretched beyond capacity and a substantial investment in new facilities is required for the existing population, let alone the huge growth planned.

The NHS are quite open that "there is no further capital finding available to fund the development of new facilities that are required as a result of the additional demand created by new population growth caused through new housing developments" 

A point that has been made to the inquiry of Highsted Park, read more here