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Building a better KGH

We are embarking on an ambitious journey to transform our facilities and services at Kettering General Hospital, ensuring we meet the growing healthcare needs of Northamptonshire for generations to come.  The delays with the New Hospital Programme have meant we have paused some of our enabling works. While we await further details, we remain steadfast in our commitment to progress.

2025 is a big year for our hospital!

Work has started on our new Energy Centre which will be completed by 2027. Driving forward the transformation that our hospital needs along with moving ahead on our plans to address the RAAC concrete in our Women’s and Children's unit with an extension to Rockingham Wing, which will provide a  much better environment for our patients. It will be bright and spacious. This also gives us the opportunity to address the accommodation issues we have had following the discovery of reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) in 2024.

Community Diagnostic Centres (CDC's)  

Designed to increase the  capacity of diagnostic testing.  Providing community-based access to diagnostic services, leaving hospital site diagnostics additional capacity to manage emergency and non-elective inpatient workload.  

Each Community Diagnostic Centre will be a free standing multi-diagnostic facility, located away from main acute hospital facilities. There is a national target to deliver 44 Community Diagnostic Centre's across England; of which 8 of these will be across the Midlands.  

In Northamptonshire, we are currently working on two new Community Diagnostic Centre's  sites. One in Kings Heath, Northampton that opened to patients in the summer of 2024 and the second in Corby, which is due to open in 2025.

Find out more about the Community Diagnostic Centre's (CDC's)

Energy Centre 

Building has already started on  a state-of-the-art  green Energy Centre  which has been designed to support the hospital's existing infrastructure more efficiently and sustainably, while also accommodating future developments.

Find out more about the Energy Centre

Solar Panels

More than 1,000 rooftop solar PV (photovoltaic) panels will be fitted around the estate. These will be funded as part of a national £100 million package from the new publicly owned energy company Great British Energy. This will help to reduce yearly energy bills by around £150,000 and will add to the hospital’s overall energy sustainability. 

Find out more about the installation of Solar Panels.   

Rockingham Wing Extension

Over the past year we have been dealing with the consequences of discovering RAAC in the roof of Rockingham Wing.  We have had to relocate services from the building and delay plans to upgrade our Special Care Baby Unit and Bereavement Suite.

We have received funding to construct an extension to the building this will help address our accommodation issues.

Find out more about the Rockingham Wing Extension.

Artist impression main entrance approach April 2022

New Hospital Programme 

While we understand the New Hospitals Programme must be affordable, we are disappointed the governments decision on 20 January 2025 to delay the next steps in our development programme until 2029/2030. This delay poses a significant challenge to our plans and the delivery of much-needed improvements for the patients and communities we serve. 

Find out more about the New Hospital Programme

Proposed Multi-Storey Car Park

Plans include the development of a seven-storey, 655-space multi-storey car park to replace spaces lost through any future redevelopment, ensuring easy and accessible parking for patients, visitors, and staff.  This will also include secure parking for staff bicycles and facilities for staff to change.

An application for planning permission has been submitted to North Northamptonshire Council and we await their feedback on the proposed design.

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    Community Diagnostic Centres
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    Energy Centre
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    Rockingham Wing Extension
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Hospital Rebuild Plan

A plan of what the hospital could look like at stage 3
On Monday, November 30 Kettering General Hospital’s Trust Board met to progress plans for rebuilding the hospital site.
 
It looked at a shortlist of options to deliver a hospital rebuild and agreed a preferred option to take forward to the next stage of business planning.
 
The options were drawn together by a team of experts in the field and used an appraisal process was carried out in accordance with HM Treasure guidance.
 
The Board agreed to pursue a rebuild to the level of phase 3 of its five phase long term plan.
It noted:
  • So far Government funding of £396m has been provisionally allocated to the hospital’s rebuild - £46m for an Urgent Care Hub (new A&E) and £350m to be agreed from the Government’s Health Infrastructure Plan (HIP2) hospital rebuilding programme.
  • This means so far £396m is available for the rebuild so far - enough to fund the first phase of the hospital’s plan and part of the second
  • Achieving this would give the hospital a new Urgent Care Hub, some new wards and an energy centre.
  • But it would not enable the majority of the hospital’s wards to be renewed.
  • The preferred option put to the Board today was to seek additional funding to enable a second and third phase of the rebuild to be completed at a cost of an estimated £765m (this would include VAT and inflation costs).
  • The Board heard that achieving phase 3 is the minimum level considered adequate to provide new hospital facilities that the majority of patients and staff would benefit from.
  • Completing this phase would give the hospital enough money to replace its inpatient wards and bring other benefits including new operating theatres, relocating key departments and removing old estate that is no longer fit for purpose.
 
Achieving phase 3 would give the hospital three major new six-storey state-of-the-art buildings housing the Urgent Care Hub, new ward blocks, new operating theatres and improve accommodation for key services. It would bring more than 80 per cent of the hospital’s buildings up to modern standards - at the moment only 20 per cent of its buildings are up to standard.
 
The Board unanimously agreed to purse the option for a phase 3 rebuild and to redouble its efforts to secure funding for this with the support of local MPs, its Governing body and the local community.
 
The first business case will be submitted in March 2021 with others following in 2022 and 2023 with increasing levels of clinical and design details.
 
Over the next three to four months the Trust will now work-up and pursue funding for the first phase of development and will work with its local and national stakeholders to progress its plans.
 
A plan of what the hospital could look like at stage 3
 
The plan picture shows what the hospital could look like at phase 3. The four proposed new dark grey buildings marked with green symbols are the new Urgent Care Hub, ward blocks and energy centre. The other two grey buildings in the bottom of the diagram are the Foundation Wing and Treatment Centre – the only existing buildings which are currently up to modern standards on the hospital site.

Posted on at by Gail Meachem

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