Latest News from around the Trust

New Macmillan telephone and online support service launches at KGH

Danielle Mellows Macmillan Cancer Information and Support Lead

Posted on at by Gail Meachem

A new Macmillan telephone and online support service for local cancer patients has been launched at Kettering General Hospital.
 
The service is providing practical, emotional and financial support virtually, by telephone, video call, email, and online and has already helped some 141 people – by direct inquiry of by taking part in events - since it was launched at the end of last year.
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Kettering Crematorium donates £10,000 to the Twinkling Stars Appeal

MR1165 Twinkling Stars Appeal launch

Posted on at by Gail Meachem

Kettering’s Warren Hill Crematorium has donated £10,000 to the Twinkling Stars Appeal at Kettering General Hospital, from money received for participating in the Institute of Cemetery and Crematorium Management (ICCM) metals recycling scheme.
 
This takes our total donations from the scheme to more than £119,000 donated to local bereavement related charities since 2011.
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Leave Them Certain organ donation campaign

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Posted on at by David Tomney

Kettering General Hospital’s Organ and Tissue Donation Committee is backing a new NHS campaign to urge local families to be sure of their loved ones wishes around donation.
 
The ‘Leave them Certain’ campaign’, launched this week (February 10), is needed because research has shown that less than half of adults in England have had that conversation.
 
KGH committee member Nicola Lee has described how having had that conversation with her own 17-year-old daughter Miriam it made it easier when Miriam died of a totally unexpected cardiac arrest in 2016.
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Tresham College students help KGH during Covid

Tresham College students work at KGH during pandemic

Posted on at by David Tomney

A Ward Host scheme is enabling 67 students from Tresham College to support busy Kettering General Hospital staff during the Covid pandemic.
 
The students, aged 16-35, help staff with patients at mealtimes, make drinks,  chat with patients and help them with schemes like Virtual Visiting – where patients use KGH computer tablets to contact relatives. (visiting is currently suspended at the hospital except in exceptional cases such as end of life care)
 
The Ward Host scheme with Tresham College, was launched on January 22, and helps free-up ward staff to concentrate on clinical care.
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Project Wingman

Clifford Ward Louise Hyde Kris Beckham and Danielle Louise

Posted on at by Gail Meachem

Doors to manual and cross check – staff at KGH get to experience the high-life as we’re visited by Project Wingman.

As the worst of the Covid-19 pandemic hit the NHS in March 2020, Project Wingman began. The project is made up of aircrew from all parts of the aviation industry who found themselves unable to work due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Back to the Floor

Leanne Hackshall and Lorraine Panter (Housekeeper) on DDU

Posted on at by Gail Meachem

Our Director of Nursing and Quality joined our housekeeping team to learn more about their role in a back-to-the-floor exercise.
 
Our Housekeeping staff do a fantastic job in keeping our hospital clean and safe for our patients, the public and our staff.
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Volunteers’ amazing work during second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic

Volunteers working in KGH vaccination centre Claire Jennings, Judy Mitchell and John Wright.

Posted on at by Gail Meachem

Kettering General Hospital’s dedicated volunteers are working to support front-line staff during the height of the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic.
 
The hospital currently has 86 active volunteers working in a variety of ways to support staff with food and drink, medication deliveries, and, very importantly, the Covid vaccination programme.
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Patient COVID Vaccinations

COVID Vaccine at KGH 22.01.2021

Posted on at by Gail Meachem

KGH have been vaccinating NHS staff and those working in the care sector since early January.
 
New national guidance now means that we are able to offer the Pfizer COVID vaccine to our out-patients who are aged 70 and above.
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KGH moves its paediatric ward, Skylark Ward to an alternative ward

Foundation Wing Skylark Ward logo

Posted on at by Gail Meachem

In response to the growing pandemic, today Kettering General Hospital has moved its children from its paediatric ward (Skylark Ward) to an alternative ward within the hospital to cope with the rising number of Covid-19 patients who require urgent care.

Please note that this is a temporary, internal ward change within KGH, and no other children’s services – including paediatric A&E - are affected. We will transfer ward services back to Skylark as soon as possible
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