News

We have made the decision to pause our home birth services, operating from Kettering General Hospital. The decision follows a review of our home birth services across University Hospitals of Northamptonshire, which highlighted some challenges for the service. 

Two of our amazing midwifes and a nurse have received DAISY Awards to mark their outstanding contributions to patient care.

The University Hospitals of Northamptonshire (UHN), which is made up of both Northampton General and Kettering General Hospitals, are running a free online event to show what support is available for the LGBTQ+ armed forces community within Northamptonshire.

Reading is fundamental - from adventures through looking glasses and wardrobes to picture books with wild things or marmalade eating bears, we all remember those books we read as a child.

The good folk at Corby based FMH Conveyors have donated a large selection of books to Skylark – our children’s ward.

A Kettering General Hospital midwifery sIster and a practice development nurse have received DAISY Leader awards after being nominated for them by grateful colleagues. 

A man who has been battling bladder cancer for four years has donated a completion of treatment bell to the urology centre at Kettering General Hospital.

And on Tuesday, February 3, Bill Clarke, 81, from Loddington, was the first patient to ring that bell as he completed his final chemotherapy treatment at the unit, based inside the hospital’s Treatment Centre.

Congratulations to our Macmillan Cancer Information and Support Centre which was opened three years ago in January 2022 by Earl Spencer.

The paediatric ward at Kettering General Hospital is hosting a community poster competition for children and teenagers to help highlight the dangers of vaping.

Kettering General Hospital is supporting research into the reasons why black men do not always come forward for prostate cancer testing.

Our research team is looking to contact black men and their families to find more about the stigma associated with prostate cancer, why this is the case, and what would change people’s minds.

The hospital is supporting phase 1 of the national study which aims to carry out interviews and surveys with volunteers to include black men with prostate cancer, their partners and immediate families, and black men over 40 without prostate cancer.