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Kettering General Hospital has taken a series of immediate actions to address concerns raised in a Care Quality Commission (CQC) report into patient falls published today (Wednesday, July 7, 2021).

 

It has developed, and is implementing, new ways of working to address issues highlighted by the CQC following a focused inspection visit on May 4 and 5, 2021.

Today, 1 July 2021, colleagues from Kettering General Hospital (KGH) and Northampton General Hospital (NGH) are celebrating having achieved University Hospital status, working with the University of Leicester, the University of Northampton and other academic partners. We are also delighted to announce the launch of our new hospital group, entitled University Hospitals of Northamptonshire (UHN) NHS Group.

The professional excellence of medical students, junior doctors and consultants at Kettering General Hospital has been celebrated with an annual award.

 

On June 25, 2021, Kettering General Hospital held its sixth Trainee & Trainer Professional Excellence Awards at the hospital’s Prince William Post Graduate Centre as a virtual presentation and awarding of certificates where this was possible

During the height of the pandemic, we were overwhelmed by the support we received from our local community.  

 

For those younger and more artistic members of the community they supported us by writing to us and sending us drawings.

Please make sure your chair is in the upright position and your tray table is folded away.

 

Staff at KGH got their final experience of the high-life as we were visited for one last time by Project Wingman.

Staff at Kettering General Hospital are celebrating today (Monday, May 24) after a study they took part in has demonstrated that dogs can be trained to indicate if people are Covid-19 positive by simply smelling them.

Talk to your family and friends about your wishes around organ donation.

 

That’s the message from Kettering General Hospital and NHS Blood and Transplant on the anniversary of Max and Keira’s law.

A successful project to provide mums-to-be with complete continuity of care with midwives they know throughout pregnancy, birth, and after care, is being expanded.

 

Kettering General Hospital launched its first continuity of care team in July 2019 in Corby.

 

By September 2020 it had been expanded to cover the whole town with three teams – Eden, Ruby and Diamond.

The Digestive Diseases Unit (DDU) team at Kettering General Hospital has won a national award for the way it has cared for vulnerable patients during the Covid-19 pandemic.