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Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has announced the results of elections to its expanded Council of Governors.

In September we announced elections to appoint new KGH Public and Staff Governors to help us shape our services and plan for the future.

The elections are for new seats on our Council of Governors created to reflect population growth and our new NHS Hospital Group model - launched in July.

On November 17 we announced elections to five Public Governor and five Staff Governor vacancies.

A dedicated local breast cancer charity is donating £390,000 to Kettering General Hospital as it winds down after 20 years of incredible work.

The Crazy Hats Appeal is paying for a brand new comfortable lounge and waiting area for breast care patients to be built inside the hospital’s Treatment Centre.

It is the latest in a series of enormous donations by the charity which has raised almost £3.5 million since its launch in 2001 by breast cancer survivor and former Kettering head teacher Glennis Hooper.

Two amazing nurses and a midwife from Kettering General Hospital have received DAISY Awards* for the outstanding, compassionate, and sensitive care they have given to patients.

Last year KGH started to take part in the DAISY Award – an international recognition programme that honours and celebrates the exceptional care that many nurses and midwives provide every day.

Since then patients, family members and carers have nominated 195 staff members for the award after receiving great care and nine have received it.

Staff who received the award on October 29 were Delivery Suite Midwife, Leanne Keenoo ,  Emergency Urology Nurse Practitioner,  Janine Cullen, and Maple Ward Staff Nurse, Nina Upama.

Kettering General Hospital has had two examples of the way it delivers great patient care accepted for use in national reports designed to spread best practice across the NHS.

The hospital’s case study examples have contributed to the national Getting It Right First Time (GIRFT) programme designed to improve medical care within the NHS by reducing unwarranted variations.

Today we are proud to launch our new Group Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professionals (AHP) Strategy. Launched by Leanne Hackshall, Director of Nursing and Quality at KGH and Sheran Oke, Director of Nursing, Midwifery and Patient Services at NGH; the new strategy explains how this will signal the start of the future for these three professional groups. During the development of our strategy, it became apparent that our Nurses, Midwives and AHP’s had a clear vision to inspire a culture of providing only the best quality of care. From this, the acronym VoICE was born, (Vision of Inspiring Care Excellence).