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A Kettering General Hospital midwife and a KGH team that supports families having caesarean sections have won national awards from England’s top midwife.

And on August 20 England’s Chief Midwifery Officer, Kate Brintworth, presented her National Silver Awards to both Community Midwifery Support Lead, Mary Grey, and to members of the Elective Caesarean Section Team.

Patients and their families will benefit from a new hospital step-down facility designed to deliver great rehabilitation care outside of hospital.

The Northamptonshire Local Resilience Forum (LRF), which brings together emergency services, local authority, NHS and other partners to plan and prepare for localised incidents and emergencies, has issued a joint message thanking communities for their support and solidarity during the events of recent days.

Consultant cardiologists at Kettering General Hospital are carrying out a new kind of heart procedure for the first time in Northamptonshire.

  The procedure is called a Coronary Sinus Reducer Implantation – which can be used when all conventional treatments for angina (chest pain caused by restricted blood flow to heart muscle) have failed.

The Macmillan Cancer Support Centre at Kettering General Hospital has received a quality assessment award plaque for the way it supports people living with cancer.

The centre – which has been operating since May 2022 - achieved the Macmillan Quality Environment Mark (MQEM) last year and since then has been going from strength-to-strength.

Pictured with the plaque, which has just arrived, are Macmillan Cancer Information and Support Lead, Danielle Bates, Macmillan Personalised Care and Information and Support Lead, Allie Gac, and Head of Nursing for Cancer, Ruth Giles.

Kettering General Hospital (KGH) has been awarded two sets of national accreditations for the way it has improved care and support for Armed Forces colleagues and patients.

Three members of our UHN Digital team have won their categories in the national Digital Health Networks awards.

Natasha Chare, Chief Digital Information Officer (CDIO) has won CIO of the Year, Ramandeep Kaur, Chief Clinical Information Officer (CCIO), has won CCIO of the Year, and Tosin Akinlabi, Clinical Safety Officer, has won Rising Star of the Year.

A healthcare assistant who went the extra mile to support a worried surgical patient has received a ROSE Award from Kettering General Hospital.

Michelle Dorrington, who works on Deene A ward, received the award for the kind and thoughtful way she helped a patient to relax after being in pain and feeling overwhelmed.