About Us
Kettering General Hospital provides acute healthcare services for the people of North Northamptonshire and South Leicestershire.
Our services are delivered from our main hospital site in Kettering, and satellite outpatient facilities at Prospect House in Kettering, Nene Park in Irthlingborough, Corby Health Complex and Isebrook Hospital in Wellingborough.
We employ around 5,000 staff and are one of the largest employers in Northamptonshire.
Basic facts and figures
We are a busy Hospital site and see:
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255 patients per day in A&E;
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Over 360,000 outpatients each year;
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About 37,000 inpatients;
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About 44,000 day case patients;
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Approx 3,200 births
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542 beds
How we are governed
Kettering General Hospital became a Foundation Trust in 2008 and is led by a Board of Directors comprising a Non-Executive Chairman, Chief Executive, 8 Executive Directors, and 8 Non-Executive Directors.
The Board is accountable to the Council of Governors that is made up of elected and nominated representatives of the population we serve. The Board meets in public every two months.
For further information about Board members, dates of future Trust Board meetings and minutes of previous public meetings can be found on the Board of Directors and Board Meeting page.
As a Foundation Trust we are required to submit an Annual Report and Statement of Accounts, and Quality Account to parliament each year.
The Board have agreed our short to medium term Strategic Objectives for the Trust in conjunction with our staff, governors and patient representatives that support the delivery of our Our Vision and Values.
The powers and duties of the Board of Directors and Council of Governors are set out in the Trust’s Constitution and it's annexes Model Election Rules, Procedure for the removal of a Governor [pdf] 152KB and Significant Transactions Policy and Procedure.
How our Services are organised
Our services are grouped into three Divisions; Family Health.Medicine and Surgery.
Each Division is led by a Chief of Service, Divisional Director and Divisional Head of Nursing, this is to ensure that clinical leadership is central to the organisation.
The chart below shows which services are included within each division and key clinical and managerial personnel. We have also included our Corporate Services as a fourth division for completeness.
How we fit into the NHS structure
We are an acute trust. We provide acute care in a hospital setting, including inpatient and outpatient treatment, accident and emergency (A&E) facilities and specialist services.
The Trust is commissioned to provide a wide range of services to the local population. Our local commissioners are Integrated Care Northamptonshire who commission services for the whole of the County.
We are also commissioned to deliver some specialist acute services by NHS England Specialised Commissioning.
The details of the services we are commissioned to provide can be found in at the bottom of this page.
Partnership working
We contract with other NHS and non-NHS organisations to purchase services to support our patients - for example community services to support acute outpatient clinics.
We are also commissioned to deliver specific services to local or national organisations.
Details of the services we purchase from other organisations and those we directly provide to others can be found below.