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Kettering General Hospital (KGH) and Young Healthwatch Northamptonshire* (see editor’s notes) have won a national award for work they have undertaken with young people

The two organisations entered the Patient Experience Network National Awards (PENNA) in the ‘Team of the Year’ category.

The joint entry was called ‘It’s my health – youth voice’ and their win was announced on Wednesday 20 March 2019 at the awards ceremony in Birmingham.

Free and confidential support for people touched by crime – whether KGH patients or staff – is now available.

KGH, along with Northampton General Hospital, have agreed to join up with Voice, the free, confidential support service for anyone affected by crime in Northamptonshire.

Kettering General Hospital is launching a new Bedside Book Service for patients from April 1, 2019.

The aim is to enable patients to have access to lots of different kinds of books to keep them entertained during their stay in hospital.

Wards across KGH held themed tea parties to celebrate national Nutrition and Hydration Week (March 11-17).

The Global Afternoon Tea events – on March 13 - had staff baking cakes and coming up with quirky ideas for themed parties.

The aim of the event – and the awareness week – was to increase understanding of the importance of good nutrition and hydration at all times for patients.

 Our amazing Maternity Bereavement team at KGH have been fundraising to buy Rainbow Bags for mums who have just had their Rainbow baby.

The team had been fundraising to buy supplies for the Rainbow Bags since August 2018. They have now been kindly supported with a generous cheque of £2885 from the Freemasons of Northamptonshire and Huntingdonshire.

This afternoon we officially opened the Frank Radcliffe Fracture Clinic in its new location!
We were joined by some familiar faces including Mr Bromage and Mr Barrington and were able to thank our amazing Estates team, builders Andrew and James Lewis and Joao Diogo our architect for a job well done!

Kettering General hospital is taking part in a trial with Baby Lifeline, a charity who supports the care of pregnant women and new-born babies, which is aiming to standardise midwives’ bags and equipment across the country.

Yesterday (Tuesday, February 26, 2019) the NHS published its annual staff survey.

The survey offers staff an opportunity to respond to 104 questions that are then grouped into ten themed areas and enable Trusts to compare how their staff rate them with each other and also compare year on year.

Kettering General Hospital is expanding a service for respiratory patients which has reduced the need for multiple visits to hospital.

The expansion has involved the hospital’s Thoracoscopy Service investing £24,000 it won in an internal Dragon’s Den-style competition held for staff in October 2018.