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The Digestive Diseases Unit (DDU) team at Kettering General Hospital has won a national award for the way it has cared for vulnerable patients during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Two amazing nurses and a midwife from Kettering General Hospital have received DAISY Awards for the outstanding, compassionate, and sensitive care they have given to patients.

Kettering General Hospital is developing a pioneering new way of supporting patients who have had a heart attack to further aid their recovery.

 

It has become one of only a few hospitals in the country to develop a specialist Post MI (myocardial infarction) Clinic which supports and monitors patients intensively after their heart attack.

A Chief Allied Health Professional Information Officer from Kettering General Hospital has won a national award for the way she supported virtual visiting for the families of patients during the pandemic.

Visiting restrictions at Kettering and Northampton General Hospital are being partially lifted as Covid-19 cases stabilise in Northamptonshire and the national lockdown eases.

A Consultant Orthodontist has retired from Kettering General Hospital after supporting thousands of patients over 27 years of service.

 

Mr Julian O’Neill has, until very recently, been the hospital’s sole consultant orthodontist after joining the hospital in January 1994 from John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford where he was a senior registrar.

An imaginative hospital team has used a fast food trailer to help provide an innovative drive-through testing service for hundreds of clinically vulnerable patients during the pandemic.

A surgeon at Kettering General Hospital has performed Northamptonshire’s first ‘key hole’ operation to remove a disc from a person’s spine.

 

Consultant Orthopaedic Spine Surgeon, Mr Purnajyoti Banerjee, performed the minimally invasive discectomy operation on Mrs Tracey Westley, from Desborough, on March 16.

Kettering General Hospital is to build an outdoor gym in its Pocket Park and continue with key staff support initiatives over the next year thanks to charity funds raised by Captain Sir Tom Moore.