News

While we understand the New Hospitals Programme must be affordable, we are disappointed by yesterday’s decision 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. 

Good news for our patients with a literary bent as our Volunteering team have relaunched their book trolley. Staffed by volunteers, they visit our in-patients to offer them a book to read, or the option of taking an entertaining activity pack. The activity pack contains sudoku puzzles, crosswords and colouring pages.

Kettering General Hospital has set up a £250,000 state-of-the-art one-stop ophthalmology suite for patients who need injections in the eye.

The new suite will benefit about 1,400 patients a year who need injections in the eye to combat conditions that affect vision and can lead to blindness.

A healthcare assistant has won a Kettering General Hospital ROSE Award for the way she supported a patient with an infection receiving palliative care.

Health leaders are urging local people not to attend A&E or other healthcare settings – or visit relatives in hospitals – if they have, or have very recently had, the Winter vomiting and diarrhoea bug norovirus.

Kettering General Hospital has won a national award for the way it has worked with a partner and used technology to become more efficient at managing its facilities and estates.

It has won the best Facilities Management Partnership Award in the  FM and Property Awards 2024 .

Two midwives and a nurse from Kettering General Hospital have received DAISY Awards to mark their outstanding contributions to patient care.

The security team that provides around-the-clock support for staff at Kettering General Hospital has received a highly commended position in a national award.