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The pioneering work of one of our hospital consultants in the 1960s is being remembered as he developed the first Intensive Care Unit in England at KGH.

 The late Dr Gerard Crockett (a consultant physician) used a small team of nurses in a converted orthopaedic ward to establish the intensive care unit in December 1962

 Dr Crockett led a team from Kettering who visited one of the first Intensive Care Units in Europe, which was in Paris. They then came back and set about creating one at KGH.

More than 300 memorial crosses laid by the relative of a patient lost to Covid-19 have been interred at Kettering General Hospital’s Pocket Park.

 A service was held there by KGH Hospital Lead Chaplain the Rev Mike Corcoran on June 26 and attended by James Steele, who lost his 87-year-old mother Betty to Covid in May 2020.

 Mr Steele initiated the placing of the 300 small wooden crosses on a lawn close to the hospital’s lower entrance in November 2020 as a memorial to those who lost family members in the first wave of the pandemic.

Two Chaplains at Kettering General Hospital were officially licensed on June 19 by the Bishop of Peterborough.

  The Rev Evie McNally and Church Army Diocesan Lay Minister Sharon Bulita are part of KGH’s eight-strong multi-faith Chaplaincy and work alongside its 30 dedicated team of spiritual and pastoral care volunteers.

  They received their Church of England licence from the Bishop of Peterborough, The Rt Rev Debbie Sellin on 19^th June.

outstanding compassionate and sensitive care they have provided.

Breast Care Nurse, Kath Phelan, former Harrowden A Ward Sister, Ambily Sreenivasan, and Paediatric Emergency Department Nurse, Natasha Welsford, were all nominated for their awards by patients or their families.

Staff at Kettering General Hospital who created a mobile phone App to help patients on the road to recovery following operations have won a highly commended placing in a national award.

 The KGH Post Op App has been created by doctors and nurses working together with patients and external technology experts.

 It achieved highly commended (second place) in the HSJ Digital Awards 2024 in the Digital pathways to Net Zero category. HSJ Digital Awards 2024: Moving Towards Net Zero Through Digital | HSJ Awards | Health Service Journal

Two play specialists and a phlebotomist have been given Kettering General Hospital ROSE Awards for their outstanding support for patients.

 Skylark Ward Play Specialists, Claire Green and Louise McKerral, and Phlebotomist, Collette Brennan, were nominated for their awards from patients and families they have supported.

A midwife at Kettering General Hospital has received a DAISY Award for the outstanding care she has provided.

Vikki Bishop was nominated by a patient for the way in which she supported her having been designated a high-risk patient due to previous treatment.

A lead nurse and a site manager at Kettering General Hospital have received DAISY Nurse Leader Awards for their outstanding leadership and support for patients and colleagues.

Clinical Duty/Site Manager, Gili Binoy, and Lead Nurse and Anticoagulation, DVT and VTE team leader, Tess Page, were nominated for their awards by grateful colleagues.