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

The centre – which has been operating since May 2022 and was officially launched by Lord Spencer in January - has achieved the Macmillan Quality Environment Mark (MQEM).

That means it has had a detailed and independent assessment and been found to have gone above and beyond to create a welcoming and friendly space that meets people’s needs.

We are celebrating the work of our amazing research teams at both Kettering and Northampton general hospitals on, May 20, International Clinical Trials Day.

Clinical Trials Day is celebrated globally on May 20 to recognise the day that James Lind, a ship’s surgeon in the British Royal Navy, started what is often considered the first randomised clinical trial (in this case, to study the effects of different treatments on scurvy in sailors), on May 20, 1774.

The research teams at the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire NHS Group – which runs KGH and NGH – work with patients, and our own teams, to do research and support clinical trials at the two hospitals.

Skin deep – how to manage common skin complaints and avoid skin cancer is a free online event held by Kettering General Hospital to help identify problems and answer common skin complaint questions.

A new way of treating certain early-stage bowel and rectum cancers without major abdominal surgery is being introduced to Northamptonshire.

It involves using minimally invasive key-hole surgery techniques to remove early-stage tumours – and some advanced benign polyps that cannot be removed with endoscopic procedures - through the anal opening rather than though major radical surgery of the rectum

The technique is called Transanal Minimally Invasive Surgery (TAMIS) and the first operation in the county was carried out at Kettering General Hospital on April 19 by Mr Triantafyllos Doulias and Mr Khalid Hureibi, Consultant Laparoscopic Colorectal and General Surgeons.