Latest news from around Kettering General Hospital

At the awards
KGH Macmillan volunteer gets a national runner-up award

A volunteer who provides holistic therapies for people using the Macmillan Cancer Information and Support Centre at Kettering General Hospital has done well in a national award. Joanne Smeathers is r...

Solar panels on the roof of NGH where work was done earlier this year.
We are fitting 1,700 solar panels to our roofs to cut energy costs

Kettering General Hospital has started work on a £713,000 project to fit rooftop solar panels to help it to reduce yearly energy bills by around £150,000. It is part of a package of &poun...

Patients with some of the greeting cards
Send a message to a loved on in hospital for free

Kettering General Hospital has today (Thursday, November 20) launched a new volunteer-led service that allows families and friends to send personalised messages to patients online – which are th...

Enhanced care team
KGH enhanced recovery programme one of the best in England

An enhanced recovery programme for colorectal patients at Kettering General Hospital is helping people to get safely home after surgery sooner than ever before.   And its shorter length-of-sta...

Award winners
We win two national awards for cardiac MRI service

The cardiac MRI team at Kettering General Hospital have won two national awards for the way they work together to provide good patient care. They have won the Society of Radiographers’ Midlands...

Macmillan Team
Our online cancer support event on November 12

Our amazing Macmillan Cancer Support Centre has organised an online cancer information event for people with questions about living with cancer. The event is on Wednesday, November 12, from 6.30pm t...

Team involved in BRACE
KGH in pioneering fracture and coeliac disease study

Researchers at Kettering General Hospital are investigating if people with bone fractures have a greater risk of coeliac disease. The aim is to find out if patients who have broken a bone should be t...

Members of the UHN Armed Forces Network
Join our on-line event supporting the Armed Forces Community

The University Hospitals of Northamptonshire (UHN), which is made up of both Northampton General and Kettering General Hospitals, along with Northamptonshire Healthcare Foundation NHS Trust (NHFT), ar...