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A Kettering General Hospital sonographer has helped improve end-of-life care arrangements at the hospital after she lost her mother.

The hospital’s Lead Sonographer in the Radiology Department, Dr Kalpana Lakhani, lost her mother, Mrs Pushpaben P Lakhani who died aged 91 on Mother’s Day 2021.

Her mother was taken to the mortuary in one of our older-style trolleys and Kalpana thought the improvements could be made to how that was done.

Local members of a disabled motor racing team visited the children’s ward at Kettering General Hospital and demonstrated how believing in yourself can help you achieve the things you want to do.

 Asha and Anji Silva are members of Team BRIT – a motor racing team made up of six drivers with various physical and psychological disabilities include amputees, people with partial paralysis, and conditions like autism and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

Kettering General Hospital has become the first hospital in Europe to fit 100 of a new type of recording device to measure heart rhythm for up to three years.

 The device – called an implantation loop recorder - is an inch (2.5cm) long and is fitted just under the skin of a patient’s chest and used to diagnose infrequent heart rhythm disturbances like atrial fibrillation (unusually irregular/fast heart rate).

A Healthcare Assistant at Kettering General Hospital has received one of the hospital’s first ROSE Awards recognising her outstanding kindness and support.

Healthcare assistant Sharon Armour, from Barnwell C Ward was given a surprise presentation of her award by Deputy Chief Nurse Pam Smith and her ward colleagues today (Tuesday April 16)

A physiotherapist who went out of her way to support, motivate, and encourage a patient, who was scared of falling, has won a Kettering General Hospital ROSE Award.

Kettering General Hospital is now delivering a state-of-the-art new treatment for some patients with benign prostate enlargement.

The treatments is called UroLift™ and involves a 15-20 minute procedure under local anaesthetic that helps permanently widen the urethra – helping resolve symptoms of the common condition which affects many men over 50.

By opening the urethra – using a number of tiny implants – it helps reduce symptoms such as a frequent need to urinate, difficulty in starting urination, reduced flow, and urinary retention.

A midwife and a doctor at Kettering General Hospital have been nominated for two bereavement awards by grateful families.

Carolyn Rowbotham has been shortlisted to the finals of the Bereavement Midwife of the Year Award by the Mariposa Trust - a national charity working with baby loss and bereavement.

And Obstetrics and Gynaecology Consultant Mrs Kirsty Adcock is shortlisted for Obstetrics and Gynaecology Doctor of the Year.