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Four teams from Kettering General Hospital have been shortlisted for prestigious national awards for providing excellent value services that improve patients’ experience of care.

Hundreds of NHS and social care organisations enter the Health Service Journal (HSJ) Awards 2020 each year and competition is fierce in all of the award categories.

Kettering General Hospital has taken delivery of its first electric vehicle as it moves towards a target of becoming carbon neutral by 2050.

The Renault Kangoo – delivered yesterday (Monday, March 2) - will be used by the hospital’s Estates Department to carry out maintenance work and deliveries to the Trust’s outlying sites such as the Medical Records Department in Robinson Way and Nene Park Outpatients Centre in Irthlingborough.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson visited Kettering General Hospital overnight to see for himself a busy NHS hospital at work.

Mr Johnson arrived at the hospital at 10.45pm last night (February 27) and met hospital staff and patients before touring various key departments and leaving at 3.20am.

  He was greeted by the Trust’s Chairman, Alan Burns, Chief Executive, Simon Weldon, Medical Director, Prof Andrew Chilton, Chief Operating Officer Jo Fawcus, Director of Nursing and Quality, Leanne Hackshall, and Director of Facilities and Estates, Ian Allen.

Dragons Den on February 6 2020 results

Macmillan Cancer Support and Kettering General Hospital (KGH) are working together to create a new Macmillan Cancer Support Centre for people living with cancer, their relatives and carers.

The centre – the first in North Northamptonshire - will be based in a courtyard garden area close to main reception at the main KGH site.

Kettering General Hospital has signed an NHS pledge to dramatically reduce plastic waste such as single-use cups, cutlery and food pots.

On Friday, January 31, the hospital’s Trust Board, signed up to NHS England’s NHS Single Use Plastic Reduction Campaign. https://www.engage.england.nhs.uk/survey/dee161d9/

Families have rated Kettering General Hospital’s maternity care highly in the Care Quality Commission (CQC) Maternity Survey 2019 out today (January 28, 2020)

Yesterday evening (January 27th) our Chief Executive, Simon Weldon and Chair of the Charitable Funds Committee, Janet Gray celebrated the official launch of with our hospital radio with our amazing volunteers who have made this happen.

Patients will benefit from an innovative Dragon’s Den event at Kettering General Hospital where staff will compete to win a share of £100,000

The hospital has worked closely with top local business leaders and entrepreneurs to put on the event on Thursday, February 6, 2020 – which will closely mirror the popular BBC 2 programme.

The last time the Trust did the event – in October 2018 – six innovative ideas were put into practice including the hospital’s patient buggy service which delivers less able patients from our car parks to the main hospital building. This was launched in July 2019 and has now made more than 4,000 journeys.