Latest news from around Kettering General Hospital

Meet Margaret who manages our staff book clubs

Posted on at by Gemma Cleaver

It’s World Book Day today, and we wanted to highlight our Library Service - something that you may be unaware of if you didn’t work for KGH.
 
Margaret Theaker is our Knowledge and Library Services Manager. Margaret has an extensive career in the world of library services. Margaret began her career as a Library Assistant at the science library in Nottingham after leaving university; and then moving to roles in the NHS in Devon and then Ayrshire.
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New Macmillan telephone and online support service launches at KGH

Danielle Mellows Macmillan Cancer Information and Support Lead

Posted on at by Gail Meachem

A new Macmillan telephone and online support service for local cancer patients has been launched at Kettering General Hospital.
 
The service is providing practical, emotional and financial support virtually, by telephone, video call, email, and online and has already helped some 141 people – by direct inquiry of by taking part in events - since it was launched at the end of last year.
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Kettering Crematorium donates £10,000 to the Twinkling Stars Appeal

MR1165 Twinkling Stars Appeal launch

Posted on at by Gail Meachem

Kettering’s Warren Hill Crematorium has donated £10,000 to the Twinkling Stars Appeal at Kettering General Hospital, from money received for participating in the Institute of Cemetery and Crematorium Management (ICCM) metals recycling scheme.
 
This takes our total donations from the scheme to more than £119,000 donated to local bereavement related charities since 2011.
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Leave Them Certain organ donation campaign

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Posted on at by David Tomney

Kettering General Hospital’s Organ and Tissue Donation Committee is backing a new NHS campaign to urge local families to be sure of their loved ones wishes around donation.
 
The ‘Leave them Certain’ campaign’, launched this week (February 10), is needed because research has shown that less than half of adults in England have had that conversation.
 
KGH committee member Nicola Lee has described how having had that conversation with her own 17-year-old daughter Miriam it made it easier when Miriam died of a totally unexpected cardiac arrest in 2016.
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Tresham College students help KGH during Covid

Tresham College students work at KGH during pandemic

Posted on at by David Tomney

A Ward Host scheme is enabling 67 students from Tresham College to support busy Kettering General Hospital staff during the Covid pandemic.
 
The students, aged 16-35, help staff with patients at mealtimes, make drinks,  chat with patients and help them with schemes like Virtual Visiting – where patients use KGH computer tablets to contact relatives. (visiting is currently suspended at the hospital except in exceptional cases such as end of life care)
 
The Ward Host scheme with Tresham College, was launched on January 22, and helps free-up ward staff to concentrate on clinical care.
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