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Yesterday (Tuesday, February 26, 2019) the NHS published its annual staff survey.

The survey offers staff an opportunity to respond to 104 questions that are then grouped into ten themed areas and enable Trusts to compare how their staff rate them with each other and also compare year on year.

Kettering General Hospital is expanding a service for respiratory patients which has reduced the need for multiple visits to hospital.

The expansion has involved the hospital’s Thoracoscopy Service investing £24,000 it won in an internal Dragon’s Den-style competition held for staff in October 2018.

Kettering General Hospital is about to open a significantly refurbished and improved fracture clinic service in a new location within the hospital.

The Frank Radcliffe Clinic will re-open to all of its patients (after using temporary accommodation in two different places) on Monday, February 25, following a £2.4m hospital refurbishment and relocation programme to improve patient care.

Today, 14 February, the NHS’s Freedom to Speak Up National Guardian,  Dr Henrietta Hughes, visited KGH.

She spoke to us about national best practice in this area and we shared some of the work we have done to promote Freedom to Speak Up at KGH including drop-in surgeries, recruiting FTSU champions across the Trust and our development plans.

A huge public response to an appeal to buy an additional intensive care incubator for the Special Care Baby Unit at Kettering General Hospital means the unit now almost has enough money for two new incubators!

Kettering General Hospital and Young Healthwatch Northamptonshire have been shortlisted for a national award for work they have undertaken with young people.

KGH has now fitted 28 special skylight tiles in its Special Care Baby Unit to support and promote brain development in premature and poorly babies.

Families have rated Kettering General Hospital’s maternity care highly in the Care Quality Commission (CQC) Maternity Survey 2018 released on 29 Jauanry 2019. https://www.cqc.org.uk/provider/RNQ/survey/5

Kettering General Hospital has appointed to a new role designed to maximise the benefits of digital technology for patients and staff.
 
Andy Callow will become the Trust’s new Chief Digital and Information Officer from the Spring, 2019. He is currently Programme Director for the innovative NHS App at NHS Digital.

Kettering General Hospital has been awarded £820,000 to introduce a new high-tech electronic system that will improve the safe use of medicines for patients.

It made a successful bid to NHS Improvement to fund a new Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (EPMA) system.