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Talk to your family and friends about your wishes around organ donation.

 

That’s the message from Kettering General Hospital and NHS Blood and Transplant on the anniversary of Max and Keira’s law.

A successful project to provide mums-to-be with complete continuity of care with midwives they know throughout pregnancy, birth, and after care, is being expanded.

 

Kettering General Hospital launched its first continuity of care team in July 2019 in Corby.

 

By September 2020 it had been expanded to cover the whole town with three teams – Eden, Ruby and Diamond.

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.