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Celebrating our Colleagues and Volunteers

We pride ourselves in recognising the achievements of our colleagues and volunteers when they go over and above providing excellence care to patients.
 
If you've received care above and beyond your expectations or if you want to recognise a member of staff who made a difference to your time in hospital as a patient, visitor or staff member, why not nominate them for one of our staff recognition awards.
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    DAISY Award

    Celebrating nurses and midwives

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    ROSE Award

    Celebrating our support workers and registrants

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    Celebrating Colleagues Long Service

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    Excellence Awards 2023

    Celebrating colleagues, volunteers & fundraisers

Please read more about the excellence work of our colleagues and volunteers

Celebrating our colleagues and volunteers

KGH midwife and doctor in finals of bereavement care awards

Posted on at by David Tomney

A midwife and a doctor at Kettering General Hospital have been nominated for two bereavement awards by grateful families.

Carolyn Rowbotham has been shortlisted to the finals of the Bereavement Midwife of the Year Award by the Mariposa Trust - a national charity working with baby loss and bereavement.

And Obstetrics and Gynaecology Consultant Mrs Kirsty Adcock is shortlisted for Obstetrics and Gynaecology Doctor of the Year.

Read KGH midwife and doctor in finals of bereavement care awards…

KGH helps trailblaze NHS plans to listen to concerns about patients

Posted on at by David Tomney

Trailblazing schemes at both Kettering and Northampton general hospitals support a new NHS plan to listen more carefully to the families of sick patients.
 
On February 21 NHS England announced a plan to roll-out ‘Martha’s Rules’ to at least 100 NHS sites to give patients and families/carers access to a critical care team for a second opinion if a patient may be deteriorating.
 
Both KGH and NGH are delivering Call4Concern schemes.
Read KGH helps trailblaze NHS plans to listen to concerns about patients…

KGH award for support for international nurses

Posted on at by David Tomney

Kettering General Hospital has won a quality award for the way it supports its international nurses and helps them to develop rewarding careers in the NHS.
 
It has received the NHS Pastoral Care Quality Award for International Nurses and Midwives recognising its commitment to providing exceptional support for staff moving to work in the UK from overseas.
Read KGH award for support for international nurses…

KGH hits quality standard for joint replacement surgery

Posted on at by David Tomney

Kettering General Hospital has achieved a nationally recognised – and difficult to achieve - quality standard for the way it collects information about joint replacement surgery to support patient safety. 

For the third year running it has been awarded the National Joint Registry (NJR) Quality Data Provider Award certificate for the scrupulous way in which it gathers and submits information to support a national safety system for joint replacements. 

 

Read KGH hits quality standard for joint replacement surgery…
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