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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.

Join Simon Weldon (Group Chief Executive) on Christmas Day from 3pm on KGH Radio as he talks about his favourite music.

 

Our friends at KGH Radio are launching a brand new show - KGH Castaways. This is the first of an occasional series of informal chats with staff at KGH.

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

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.

 

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.

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.

A nurse at Kettering General Hospital has won a national award for the way she has helped in the introduction of an electronic patient record including the use of on-the-spot hand-held patient observations recording.

On Monday, November 30 Kettering General Hospital’s Trust Board met to progress plans for rebuilding the hospital site.

 

Kettering General Hospital has achieved the first two levels of an accreditation scheme which commits it to supporting staff who are also caring for others outside of work.

 

The Trust has been awarded level 2 of the Carer Friendly Employer Accreditation Scheme run by Northamptonshire Carers.