By Craig Buchan

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Ken Rogers, chairman of Concern for Health in East Kent, said: “This type of patient experience will never end unless there is serious investment in east Kent instead of sticking plaster-type cures.”

Acute care in east Kent will “eventually collapse” without intervention, he added.

He said he had written to Health Secretary Wes Streeting, inviting him to visit the area’s hospitals and calling for further investment.

The Department of Health and Social Care has been approached for a comment.