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Additional specialist support for families who have been through the difficulties of having sick and premature babies is now being delivered in Northamptonshire’s acute hospitals and in the community. 

The University Hospitals of Northamptonshire (UHN) – a group collaboration between Kettering and Northampton general hospitals – now has a specialist Neonatal Clinical Psychologist supporting the neonatal units at both acute hospitals. 

Skin specialists at Kettering General Hospital are offering local people the chance to have moles and other marks on their skin checked out to have peace of mind on possible skin cancers. 

A Kettering General Hospital midwife and a KGH team that supports families having caesarean sections have won national awards from England’s top midwife.

And on August 20 England’s Chief Midwifery Officer, Kate Brintworth, presented her National Silver Awards to both Community Midwifery Support Lead, Mary Grey, and to members of the Elective Caesarean Section Team.

Patients and their families will benefit from a new hospital step-down facility designed to deliver great rehabilitation care outside of hospital.

The Northamptonshire Local Resilience Forum (LRF), which brings together emergency services, local authority, NHS and other partners to plan and prepare for localised incidents and emergencies, has issued a joint message thanking communities for their support and solidarity during the events of recent days.

Consultant cardiologists at Kettering General Hospital are carrying out a new kind of heart procedure for the first time in Northamptonshire.

  The procedure is called a Coronary Sinus Reducer Implantation – which can be used when all conventional treatments for angina (chest pain caused by restricted blood flow to heart muscle) have failed.

The Macmillan Cancer Support Centre at Kettering General Hospital has received a quality assessment award plaque for the way it supports people living with cancer.

The centre – which has been operating since May 2022 - achieved the Macmillan Quality Environment Mark (MQEM) last year and since then has been going from strength-to-strength.

Pictured with the plaque, which has just arrived, are Macmillan Cancer Information and Support Lead, Danielle Bates, Macmillan Personalised Care and Information and Support Lead, Allie Gac, and Head of Nursing for Cancer, Ruth Giles.

Kettering General Hospital (KGH) has been awarded two sets of national accreditations for the way it has improved care and support for Armed Forces colleagues and patients.