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KGH has received the go-ahead to start enabling works to prepare for our planned multi-million pound rebuild.

 The hospital has received written confirmation from the Department of Health and Social Care and NHS England that it can begin to access millions of pounds in capital.

This will mean the hospital can start to prepare parts of its site for the major rebuild itself, which, subject to business case approvals and funding, could begin in 2025.

It is great news that we have the go ahead to progress enabling works which will pave the way for our hospital rebuild.

A nurse from Kettering General Hospital has received a DAISY Award for the compassionate and sensitive care she has delivered.

Stoma Nurse, Eleanor “Ellie” Horley, was nominated for her award by a patient, Kelly Brawn, from Corby, for the way she was supported at a difficult time.

The DAISY Awards are an international recognition programme that honours and celebrates the exceptional care that many nurses and midwives provide every day.

A nurse and a midwife from Kettering General Hospital have received DAISY Awards for the outstanding, compassionate, and sensitive care they have delivered.

Deputy Sister, Amber Dicks, and Community Midwife, Alice Stillgoe (nee Macfarlane) were nominated for their awards by patients or their families.

The DAISY Awards are an international recognition programme that honours and celebrates the exceptional care that many nurses and midwives provide every day.

Kettering and Northampton general hospitals are having their first joint annual meeting since they became a University Hospital NHS Group last year.

The event is being held online on Thursday, November 3, from 10am-12 noon via a Microsoft Meetup on this link Join the Annual Members Meeting and General Meeting

This is a unique opportunity to hear from the senior leadership teams at Northamptonshire’s two acute hospitals which together now serve up to 750,000 local people.

A newly registered children’s nurse at Kettering General Hospital is part of a team that has received a national award for supporting student and newly qualified paediatric nurses.

Emma Hall joined KGH as a paediatric nurse in A&E on 3^rd October 2022 but while she was student at The University of Northampton, in 2019, she became a member of the Children and Young Persons Student Nurse Network.

She is now Deputy Lead for the network which enables student nurses and newly qualified children’s nurses to contact each other and swap advice, ideas, and be supported in their education via an online twitter account https://twitter.com/cypstnn #@CYPStNN

The network’s work was entered into the 2022 Zenith Global Health Awards. and has won its Rising Stars Award and been highly commended as an Outstanding Team. https://zenithglobalhealth.com/ . The awards celebrate sharing, learning, and collaborating to achieve global excellence in healthcare.

Patients and staff at Kettering and Northampton general hospitals are set to benefit from a major research funding announcement.

The University Hospitals of Northamptonshire NHS Group – which runs KGH and NGH – is now a formal partner in the National Institute for Health and Social Care Research (NIHR) Leicester Biomedical Research Centre (BRC).

On October 14 it was announced that the NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre will receive £26m to spend on research over the next five-year funding cycle (2022-2027).

Kettering General Hospital has achieved a nationally recognised – and difficult to achieve - quality standard for the way it collects information about joint replacement surgery.

It has been awarded – for the second year running - the National Joint Registry (NJR) Quality Data Provider Award certificate for the scrupulous way in which it gathers and submits information to support a national safety system for joint replacements.

The NJR is a national body which collects data from all NHS and private providers in the country who fit hip, knee, ankle, elbow or shoulder joint replacement joints.