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.
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.
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.
The new Energy Centre will make a significant contribution towards the Trust’s ambition to achieve net carbon zero status by 2040.The new facility will deliver 40% of the target reduction in carbon emissions and use less fossil fuel.