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Nurse who served her local community for 45 years retires

On her last day at work Endoscopy Unit Staff Nurse Wendy Harrison was given a good send off by her colleagues.
A nurse who has served her local community for 45 years – including playing an important part in developing Kettering General Hospital’s endoscopy service - has retired.
 
On her last day at work, on December 31, Endoscopy Unit Staff Nurse Wendy Harrison was given a good send off by her colleagues where she received cards and presents.
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KGH starts vaccinating to combat Covid-19

Bryan Walton, 80, from Wilbarston, was one of the first local people to get his Covid-19 vaccination from Kettering General Hospital. The vaccination was delivered by East Midlands Ambulance Service Community First Responder Stacey Price
Kettering General Hospital has started vaccinating the over-80s, care home workers and high-risk NHS staff to combat Covid-19.
 
A team of KGH staff and volunteers from East Midlands Ambulance Service staff will work together to start to deliver the first batch of vaccinations from the hospital’s main Rothwell Road site.
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KGH spends £1m to extend the capacity of two of its medical wards

Staff from Naseby Ward - Loraine Vanderson (Assistant Practitioner) and Nadia Tobierre (Ward Sister) - with Matron for Medicine Shaun Harrison outside of Naseby Ward where the new extension is being built.
Kettering General Hospital is spending £1m to extend the capacity of two of its medical wards with a temporary building.
 
The 12-bed extension – which includes two new side rooms – will help the hospital to cope with capacity pressures this Winter and improve social distancing spaces between beds to make care safer during the pandemic
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Local doctors urging former Covid-19 patients to donate blood plasma

KGH Consultant Anaesthetist, Dr Pawan Kumar (front left) and Respiratory Consultant, Dr Raja Reddy (front right) with Organ and Tissue Donation Committee Chair, Shirley Newman (L) and KGH Lead Nurse for Organ Donation, Linda Knighton (R), who are supporting convalescent plasma donation.
Local doctors are urging former Kettering and Northampton General Hospital patients who have had Covid-19 to donate blood plasma for a treatment trial.
Kettering General Hospital Respiratory Consultant, Dr Raja Reddy, and KGH Consultant Anaesthetist, Dr Pawan Kumar, want patients to donate their plasma using a new NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) donation centre recently established in Northampton.
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KGH completes £800k refurb of short-stay medical assessment unit

Matron for Urgent Care Wards Louise Hyde is pictured cutting the ribbon to re-open MAU and with staff in one of the refurbished areas.
 
Kettering General Hospital has completed an £800,000 refurbishment of its short-stay medical assessment unit to help meet the challenges of Winter during the Covid-19 pandemic.
 
Middleton Assessment Unit – also known as MAU – was closed on October 20 with its work taken on by another ward until it reopened for business on December 15.
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KGH secure £160,000 worth of state-of-the-art endoscopy equipment

Endoscopy Unit staff members Lucy Drage and Steph Touray with some of the new endoscopy equipment
Kettering General Hospital has secured £160,000 worth of state-of-the-art endoscopy equipment to improve its capacity to see patients more quickly.
 
The Trust made a successful bid to purchase additional equipment through the Department of Health and Social Care’s Adapt and Adopt programme developed to help NHS hospitals catch-up on waiting times during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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