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Health and Caring

Welcome to the Health and Caring section of the Tunbridge Wells Borough Council Website


Health can mean many different things to many different people. The work we do at Tunbridge Wells Borough Council is mostly around keeping people healthy rather than delivering healthcare. The Council helps to ensure that food premises are safe, that people are living in healthy environments and that any problems that could affect health such as pests are taken care of as soon as possible. You can find out more about these services in our ‘Environment’ pages. The Council also works to provide suitable homes for local people by helping people get an affordable home and helping people to improve their home. You can find out more about these services in our ‘Housing’ pages.

The Healthier Communities Team at the Council works closely with the NHS to deliver activities to help you get, or stay, healthy. You can find out more about these activities on the Choosing Health pages or you can get more general advice about healthy living at NHS Direct. 

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Healthcare in Tunbridge Wells, such as GPs, hospitals and dentists, are provided by West Kent NHS. Services such as community nursing, physiotherapy, speech and language therapy, chiropody and community hospitals all form part of Primary Care. The local NHS also provides information on health promotion, child health, child protection and health in schools. The NHS provides all the GP services in the area. To find out more, please visit West Kent NHS, or use one of the weblinks at the bottom of the page.

Hospitals in the Tunbridge Wells area are run by the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust.

Social care is delivered by Kent County Council. They provide care services for all ages and stages of life, including older people, disabled people, people with mental health problems and children and families. Kent County Council offer both residential and home support as well as fostering and adoption services.

We hope you find these pages useful. Why not have a look around and see what you can join in with to get healthier?

Stay healthy!

Healthier Communities Team
Tunbridge Wells Borough Council
Town Hall
Civic Way
Royal Tunbridge Wells
Kent, TN1 1RS
Email: health@tunbridgewells.gov.uk
Telephone: 01892 554411

Web Links

  • Change4Life
    Change4Life is a wide scale national campaign by the Department of Health to get everyone 'eating well, moving more, and living longer'.
  • Healthy Schools

    The National Healthy Schools Programme is an exciting long-term initiative which is making a significant difference to the health and achievement of children and young people. The National Healthy Schools Programme supports the links between health, behaviour and achievement; it is about creating healthy and happy children and young people, who do better in learning and in life.

  • NHS Direct
    The official website of the NHS 24 hour telephone helpline. This website contains information on health problems and offers advice and help with many health problems.

  • NHS Choices
    NHS Choices has been developed to help you make choices about your health, from lifestyle decisions about things like smoking, drinking and exercise, through to the practical aspects of finding and using NHS services when you need them.

PDF IconHealth Improvement Action Plan - PDF/Acrobat File
This action plan sets out to develop the work of the Council’s future activities in improving the health of all our residents and tackling the health inequalities experienced by residents in some parts of the borough.