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The Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust have launched an international recruitment drive in Portugal just weeks before 24 nurses from Ireland begin working in its hospitals.

Portuguese nurses are trained to the same standard as British ones, but their economy is less stable than the UK's, meaning many nurses there cannot find employment.

The Maidstone Hospital and Tunbridge Wells Hospital are looking to recruit 40 further qualified nurses due to growing demands in its services.

John and Clare talk to Sarah Dodsworth, Operational Manager at the South East division of the Royal College of Nursing and Roy Lilley, a former health trust chairman (07.07).

Nick Cavanagh, Sales Manager at First Call Medical (06.07) and Graham Scott, Editor of Nursing Standard (08.07) also share their views.

Also on the programme, elderly people who have to go into care should pay no more than 拢50,000, according to the man in charge of adult social services in Kent.

County Council cabinet member Graham Gibbens was one of the leading signatories of a letter to the Telegraph, saying costs should be capped at that level.

We chat to Nadra Ahmed from West Malling, chair of the National Care Association (06.22), Graham Gibbens himself joins us live from County Hall to explain his stance on the cap (07.22) and we speak to Lizzy Feltoe, Age UK's social care policy advisor (08.22).

And many supermarkets deem them surplus to requirements but Kent MP Laura Sandys is launching a campaign to stop waste and lower food bills by getting us to eat "ugly food."

She tells us her motives behind the project and we speak to Bob Gordon, Head of Environment at the British Retail Consortium (07.47).

We are also live at a farm in Ickham near Canterbury to hear from Jeff Preston, a farmer and agricultural contractor, who shares his experiences of producing faultless fruit (08.48).

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