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A new service to improve older people’s experience of being a patient at Kettering General Hospital – especially during busy times - has just been launched.

The new High Fidelity Simulation Suite has realistic full-sized patient manikins - which are computerised and can be programmed to simulate real medical emergencies.

A new high-tech ultrasound scanner that helps in the early detection of womb cancer has been bought for Kettering General Hospital by a cancer charity.

Kettering General Hospital has introduced a new state-of-the-art way for patients to give feedback about their hospital experience. 

A charity which supports local families who have lost a baby has paid for a £17,000 refurbishment and expansion of Kettering General Hospital’s bereavement facilities.

Northamptonshire SANDS (the Stillborn and Neonatal Death Charity) has been supporting the improvement work since December last year – and it is now complete.

Kettering General Hospital’s Dermatology Department is opening for business in its new and improved off-site location from Monday, November 26.

The department has moved from its location on the main hospital site to Prospect House in Lower Street, Kettering -  where it will share premises with Eskdaill and Weavers medical centres and Rolands Pharmacy.

A new way of treating calcified heart arteries using sonic pressure waves has been performed at Kettering General Hospital for the first time.

This procedure is currently performed only at a few major heart centres in the UK and worldwide – and is probably the first one to be done in the East Midlands region.

It is proving to be a safer way of treating calcified heart arteries and is likely to become a standard approach.

Kettering General Hospital’s Midwifery Advocates are hosting their 30th Pregnancy and Baby Road Show providing huge amounts of useful advice in a one-stop shop open evening for parents-to-be. 

The event, on Wednesday, December 5, is being held from 6pm-8pm at The Hall@KGH (the recreation hall next to car park B at the main KGH site).

Kettering General Hospital has launched a £2.4m refurbishment and relocation programme to improve care for A&E patients.

Local diabetes specialists and a professional cyclist - who is living with diabetes - are carrying out a series of awareness raising events for local people on World Diabetes Day - Wednesday, November 14.