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Kettering General Hospital has completed an £800,000 refurbishment of its short-stay medical assessment unit to help meet the challenges of Winter during the Covid-19 pandemic.

 

Middleton Assessment Unit – also known as MAU – was closed on October 20 with its work taken on by another ward until it reopened for business on December 15.

Kettering General Hospital has secured £160,000 worth of state-of-the-art endoscopy equipment to improve its capacity to see patients more quickly.

 

The Trust made a successful bid to purchase additional equipment through the Department of Health and Social Care’s Adapt and Adopt programme developed to help NHS hospitals catch-up on waiting times during the Covid-19 pandemic.

A nurse at Kettering General Hospital has won a national award for the way she has helped in the introduction of an electronic patient record including the use of on-the-spot hand-held patient observations recording.

On Monday, November 30 Kettering General Hospital’s Trust Board met to progress plans for rebuilding the hospital site.

 

Kettering General Hospital has achieved the first two levels of an accreditation scheme which commits it to supporting staff who are also caring for others outside of work.

 

The Trust has been awarded level 2 of the Carer Friendly Employer Accreditation Scheme run by Northamptonshire Carers.

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At its next Trust Board on 30 November, KGH Board members are expected to press for additional government funding to enable them to progress plans for a new hospital.

 

On top of £46m for a much-needed urgent care hub, the Trust was delighted to receive an allocation of funds totalling £350m in the Government’s recent commitment to fund capital developments at more than 40 hospitals. Subject to business case approval, the money allocated to KGH will fund notable improvements to the hospital’s aged estate.

KGH, London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust (LNWH),  St Mark's Hospital Foundation and digital services company Made Tech have been shortlisted for the Acute Sector Innovation of the Year at the 2020 HSJ Awards.

Innovative ‘virtual visiting’ live links at Kettering and Northampton General Hospital are supporting hundreds of local families who can’t visit their loved ones in hospital.

 

And, during the current lockdown, and as Covid-19 cases continue to rise in Northamptonshire, the two hospitals are reminding local people about the different ways we can help people to stay in touch.

Kettering General Hospital has achieved a nationally recognised – and difficult to achieve - quality standard for the way it collects information about joint replacement surgery.

 

It has been awarded the National Joint Registry (NJR) Quality Data Provider award for the scrupulous way in which it gathers and submits information to support a national safety system for joint replacements.