New Hospital Programme

We await the outcome of the New Hospital Programme review, which aims to consider the options for putting on to a realistic, deliverable and affordable footing. 

We continue working on our Enabling Programme – works that are needed before the redevelopment starts - some services need relocating, site infrastructure like the energy centre and a car park plan to identify how we will address the loss of car parking on site.

In October 2019, Kettering General Hospital was invited by the Secretary of State to bid for government funding to redevelop our hospital site through the Government’s Health Infrastructure Plan.

This is a plan to build, or substantially improve, hospitals across the country and is also known as the New Hospitals Programme.

The Development Control Plan was approved by our Trust Board in November 2020 with a preferred way forward identified.   

In Autumn 2020 we worked with our staff, key stakeholders, and public and patient representatives to define the models of care that our new hospital buildings need to accommodate.  

We have also taken account of population growth and planning assumptions so that the redevelopment can adequately meet future needs. This work has helped to inform design development and costings needed to support our funding application. In February 2021 the Trust Board approved our  Strategic Outline Case  detailing our plans and this was submitted to NHS England/Improvement in the same month.