News

Preparatory work on Kettering General Hospital’s planned £57m new Energy Centre is starting.  

To allow people enough time to visit their loved ones following Iftar, we are extending our visiting hours to 10pm across all UHN hospitals this Ramadan. These hours will apply to all visitors, until 30 March.

We are thrilled to announce that the new Community Diagnostic Centre, located adjacent to the Kings Heath General Practice in Northampton, has officially opened its doors!

Kettering General Hospital is receiving support from NHS England to build a new state-of-the-art extension to its maternity unit to offset the impact of RAAC concrete.

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.