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Today Kettering and Northampton general hospitals are looking back on 75 years of caring for our local communities and celebrating the vital role we play. 

Key members of the Macmillan cancer charity visited KGH today (Monday, June 26,) to see for themselves how it is transforming care for patients.

Macmillan’s Chief Executive, Gemma Peters, Chief People Officer, Graham Jones, Chief Financial Officer, Steve Clayton, and Chief Information Officer, Rox Heaton, were given a tour of the Macmillan Cancer Support Centre at KGH by our Macmillan Head of Nursing for Cancer Ruth Giles.

They heard from local patient Elaine Kowalczuk, from Kettering, on her continuing cancer journey.

Staff and visitors cycling to Kettering General Hospital can safely park their bikes and pump up their tyres at new facilities opened today (Wednesday, June 21).

A 10-cycle covered storage area has been installed alongside a public bike pump and repair station near the hospital’s main entrance. 

Following the death of Kettering General Hospital gardener Ralph Howe after 64 years of devoted service we look back at his life and times.

Ralph first started gardening with his father when he was about ten years old in his garden and allotment in Woodford.

Tributes have been made to much-loved Kettering General Hospital gardener, Ralph Howe MBE, who has died in service after being one of the longest serving employees in the NHS.

Mr Howe, aged 81, worked in the hospital’s grounds – come rain or snow - for 64 years after he first joined the gardening team in 1959 aged 17.

He had a stroke on June 8 at his home in Kettering and died later at Northampton General Hospital on the night of June 13.

A bowel cancer screening programme that helps detect cancers and pre-cancerous growths early has now been extended to patients over 55 in Northamptonshire.

The screening expansion is part of national plans to roll out screening in stages to all patients over 50 by 2025. 

From the end of March all individuals over the age of 55 are being invited for screening at Kettering and Northampton general hospitals as part of collaborative work by the University Hospitals of Northamptonshire NHS Group **.