Join our Health Awareness event at the Swansgate Shopping Centre tomorrow (Fri, 30 Aug) from 10:30.
You can talk with our Governors and meet other local NHS services, charities and organisations.
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One of our amazing nurses, Ayomide Owolabi, from Naseby B Ward, has received a DAISY Award for the outstanding compassionate and sensitive care he provided for a 95-year-old patient. See:
If you drive along Rothwell Road today look out for this lovely message from our friends at Northamptonshire County Council (
@mycountycouncil
)
Thank you for such a lovely gesture to not only to NHS staff, but all of our essential workers.
#NorthantsTogether
Today we took delivery of a very special memorial stone. This will act as a permanent reminder of the impact Covid has had on our hospital and community.
Thank you to Michael, Julien and Will who installed the stone. We will hold a small blessing ceremony in a few weeks time.
Today we are honouring Ned Rowe – a baby who died from flu earlier this year – by telling his story. It is a story which will inspire our staff – and members of the local community – to be vaccinated against this potentially fatal illness. To find out more
We wanted to say a huge thank you to
#TeamKGH
🏥
To our amazing staff who are working hard this Easter weekend. From doctors to nurses through to housekeeping and Pathology staff and to non-clinical staff
If you are on duty or not - we wish you all a very Happy Easter
#WeCare
A huge thank you to Gallone’s Ice Cream who came to KGH to sell boxes of essential groceries to our hardworking staff who can’t always get to the shops.
The boxes had bread, milk, pasta and we’re sold at cost.
An amazing thing to do...and you’ll be back!
#TeamKGH
🏥
The CQC undertook an inspection of KGH. The results are out now.
We have come out of special measures after the CQC report published today found that we had made significant improvements.
Read the report on-line
💕We'd like to say a HUGE thank you to Milo and Frances who have kindly donated 40 pizzas for our staff ! 💕
You definitely brought a pizza happiness to these hard-working NHS staff today 🍕
KGH has become the first hospital in the UK to adopt a new state-of-the-art imaging and biopsy system which will improve care and reduce delays for suspected breast cancer patients in Northamptonshire. To find out more
We have been awarded university hospital status.
Here's our Chairman Alan Burns, Professor Edmund Burke, Deputy Vice Chancellor,University of Leicester and Dr Cathy Smith, Dean of Research, Innovation and Impact, University of Northampton unveiling the plaque.
#UHNTogetherWeCan
We'd like to wish good luck to our brilliant 'Long Stay Wednesday' team who are off to the
@HSJ_Awards
! They're nominated for their unique way of fast tracking patient discharges (although seemingly today is more like Long Dress Wednesday !)
#teamKGH
#goodluck
👗
This is such a kind gesture 👇🏻👇🏽👇🏾
These will helping us in these difficult times. We really appreciate the many donations that we have received recently.
Thank you very much.
#TeamKGH
🏥
300 pairs of science safety glasses have been packaged this morning and are on their way to
@KettGeneral
- we hope these are of use. Please pass on our thanks, appreciation and best wishes to all hospital staff who are doing such an amazing job.
@BBCNorthampton
@UnitedLearning
Well done to our Lung Cancer Nurse Specialists who have won a national award for the way they have cared for vulnerable patients during the COVID-19 pandemic.
We’ve been visited by Avon who delivered 3 pallets of goodies. The donations included hand and foot creams - which will be a huge treat for staff working long shifts.
Thanks to Avon,Jayne & the team and everyone involved in donating items to our hospital on the hill.
#TeamKGH
🏥
Our amazing spinal surgeons have performed Northamptonshire’s first ever operation to remove a disc from a person’s spine using an endoscopic camera/surgical tool almost as thin as a pencil. For more and to see the patient’s experience go to:
This evening we opened our training suite to local young people to show them what a life in medicine is like.
From Cardiology to cannulars, and SCBU to the surgery.
Booked through their schools, there was the opportunity for them to ask questions about a life in medicine.
We just spotted a double rainbow over KGH - we're maybe a bit too excited about his really. 🌈🌈
The second rainbow is to the right of the photo - it's very faint - but it was definitely there.
#TeamKGH
🏥
#FridayFeelings
#FridayFeels
Our amazing Binoy Kanjookkaran Chakkappan met King Charles III on his 75th birthday at a special celebration for outstanding NHS staff at Buckingham Palace yesterday. Binoy leads our pioneering Enhanced Care Team for vulnerable patients. See
Did you know a 50% increase of patients walking in hospital is associated with a 6% shorter stay ? It's been great to see our staff pledging to
#EndPJparalysis
by getting their patients dressed and moving ! Many thanks to
@PeteGordon68
for inspiring many of us today 🏥
#MADE
1/4 Today we are delighted to announce the opening of our
#WeCare
Café
This is a place for our staff to relax and take a little time to renew their energy. There's also a quiet space where they can talk to a listener who can signpost staff to available support services
#TeamKGH
Through the many generous donations we’ve received, tomorrow we will be able offer a free breakfast to
#TeamKGH
🏥
Our final breakfast delivery came today when
#JacksonsBakery
delivered 1,900 loaves of bread 🍞
Thanks to Gavin and the team for delivering the loaves today!
Simon Weldon, the current Chief Executive of Kettering General Hospital, has been appointed for the Group Management Model for Kettering and Northampton general hospitals.
#TeamKGH
🏥
Read more:
A KGH team that supports acutely ill adult patients has been shortlisted for two top awards for the way it works with families to tackle clinical concerns. To learn more see//bit.ly/3BlC82T
Dione Rogers (Chief Nursing Information Officer) has won the national
#WomenInTechExcellence
2020 Digital Leader of the Year Award – beating 10 other nominated top industry professionals.
Well done Dione you're amazing! 🎉
#TeamKGH
🏥
cc.
@Dionerog44
Next Tuesday we're holding a webinar about our journey to going digital.
Learn how we’re working to a day when clinicians are able to say ‘I don’t need to bring a pen to work'.
Plus, understand the positive impact of this transformation on our patients.
Tributes have been made to much-loved KGH gardener, Ralph Howe MBE, who has died in service after being one of the longest serving employees in the NHS. To see his tributes . For more on his life
KGH has appointed Andy Callow as our new Chief Digital and
Information Officer to help us maximise the benefits of digital technology for patients and staff.
Our Long Stay Wednesday Team - who help reduce the number of patients waiting more than 3 weeks to leave hospital – have been shortlisted for a prestigious HSJ Award. See We wish them
luck!
KGH has been given £1million by the Government to spend on upgrading Urgent Care facilities to prepare for Winter.
The money will be used to expand our Same Day Emergency Care unit (which sits alongside A&E), and make adjustments to Paediatric A&E 🏥
It's with great sadness that we join the nation & the world in mourning the passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. On behalf of everyone at Kettering & Northampton Hospitals, we offer our deepest condolences to the Royal Family & our thoughts are with them at this sad time.
Visitors to KGH will see a new tented area has been set up outside our Emergency Department - next to the ambulance entrance area.
This is to help ambulance staff handover patients into our care without entering the main emergency department.
#TeamKGH
🏥
#StayHomeSaveLives
Huge congratulations to our Safeguarding team for placing 2nd in the British Journal of Midwifery Practice Awards 2020 -Innovation in Practice category. The 'Not Forgotten Boxes' support mothers whose children have been take into care 🏥
Yesterday's
@itvnews
bulletins at 6:30 and 22:00 featured a special report filmed in our Intensive Care Unit (ICU).
If you missed the report you can watch it again on the ITV News website:
#TeamKGH
🏥
#TeamNHS
💙
Our amazing teams in ITU, Clifford Ward and the
#WeCare
café are set to be featured on the national
@ITVNews
tonight (Friday, 24 April 2020).
The ITV News broadcasts we are set to feature in:
📺 The ITV Evening News 6.30pm-7pm
📺 News at Ten 10pm-10.30pm
#TeamKGH
🏥
Teams at KGH and NGH have been shortlisted for a national award for the way we use technology to better support frail patients and prevent unnecessary hospital admissions. See
1/2 As you’ll be aware, we are extremely busy in our A&E department.
To thank our staff we have arranged a random act of kindness for staff.
This is to thank our amazing staff for their hard work and ongoing commitment over this very busy period.
#TeamKGH
🏥
#ThankYouNHSStaff
We're pleased to announce that Ben Cohen will be our fifth Dragon.
Ben is a sportsman, business owner and anti-bullying activist. 🏳️🌈
Born in
#Northampton
, Ben's a former England Rugby World Cup winner, beginning his career at the Northampton Saints.
Welcome to our Dragons' Den
It’s Christmas Eve and our amazing Estates and Facilities staff, along with IT colleagues are setting up our vaccination station as we prepare to start giving the vaccine from next week.
Amazing stuff from all of the teams involved in getting us ready! 👏🏼👏🏽👏🏾
#TeamKGH
🏥
1/2 Our pop-up
#COVIDVaccine
clinic has closed.
Thank you to everyone who attended for keeping you, your family and community safe.
Our amazing team vaccinated nearly 14,000 people across the NHS and Health and Social Care.
Our team were thanked today by senior team members...
We continue to distribute our Avon pamper treats to staff.
Our very own IT Crowd just loved the lippy and wanted to show us.💋
It's not quite worthy of Drag Race - but it's a start!
#TeamKGH
🏥
#SashayAway
#AvonCommunity
Today we're celebrating our Allied Health Professionals (AHPs) as part of
#AHPDay
Leanne (Dir. of Nursing & Quality) and Jo Fawcus (Chief Operating Officer) joined our AHPs to thank them for their work and present them with a well deserved cake
Well done to our AHPs
#TeamKGH
🏥
1/3 We've been very fortunate in having a number of local businesses donate food to us during these testing times.
This has given us the opportunity to offer our amazing staff a free breakfast this morning.
We were able to offer bacon rolls, cereal and toast.
#TeamKGH
🏥
Last night we were able to treat our hardworking night shift staff with hot meals.
We had chicken pasta dishes and a vegetable pasta dishes donated by local restaurant Casa Di Roma.
A huge thank you to the restaurant staff and to Jayne for staying late to serve staff.
A memorial garden was opened today at KGH as a tribute to its longest-ever serving employee gardener Ralph Howe who did 64 years of continuous service - see.
Ralph’s life and times
Hi
@TheRealJackDee
!
You’re at the Kettering Conference Centre tonight - and so are we with our
#NHSStaff
awards ceremony
Why not drop by to treat our staff to a quick hello. We might even have a dessert ready for you 🧁
And
#TeamKGH
have told us how excited they are! 👇🏾👇🏽👇🏼
Brilliant work for the
#TeamKGH
🏥 vaccine team. 👍🏾👍🏽👍🏼
Well done to everyone involved from our Estates team to the vaccinators and our volunteers.
You folks are amazing!
We have had a 30ft high ‘Tree of Hope’ mural painted in our atrium to symbolise the impact of, and recovery from, the COVID-19 pandemic.
Read more on our website:
#TeamKGH
🏥
#TreeOfHope
*PLEASE SHARE*
From 19th July 2021 nothing will change in our hospitals. All of our COVID restrictions will remain.
If you are coming to our hospital as a patient or visitor you will still be required to:
✋wash your hands
😷wear a mask
👉social distance
#ProtectAndRespect
1/3 KGH and NGH and KGH make senior leadership appointments.
The two hospitals are another step closer to becoming a new hospital Group following the appointments to three senior leadership roles.
As part of our contingency plans we've placed an 18 bed temporary ward facility on car park A to give us extra bed capacity, as we work through and recover, from the current pandemic.
The new block is not a coronavirus ward and would not be used for patients with coronavirus.
Our A&E and Intensive Care Unit have been presented with books which help children to understand what has happened when they lose loved ones thanks to support from our Organ and Tissue Donation Committee. More
A cardiac physiologist from KGH, Gareth Mackin, has graduated with the highest score in the UK for one exam – and scored in the top 1% in the world in another. To see more:
Doors to manual and cross check – staff at KGH get to experience the high-life as we’re visited by
@_ProjectWingman
✈️
Cabin Crew from
@easyJet
and
@British_Airways
helped serve drinks to
#TeamKGH
🏥
Read more on our website:
KGH Obstetrics and Gynaecology Consultant, Mrs Kirsty Adcock, has received a Special Recognition Award for Obstetrics and Gynaecology Doctor of the Year from the Mariposa Trust, a bereavement charity. For more see:
KGH has won an Employer of the Year Award from The Bedford College Group for the way it has supported students with placements during the pandemic. It included having 70 students as Ward Hosts supporting front-line staff. See
Jayne (Pictured) and the
#WeCARE
team are currently distributing
#KrispyKreme
donuts and a chilled
#CostaCoffee
to our staff.
This is the perfect opportunity for our amazing staff to take a well deserved - and socially distant - break during their long shifts
Thank you
#TeamKGH
Trauma & Orthopaedic trainee, Geeth Selva, has donated all these new toys to our Skylark children's ward. It means so much to our patients and their families when they receive such gifts, especially during the festive season. Thank you Geeth 👏🎄🎅
#christmasgifting
3/3 Things are very serious right now across all hospitals and it's a harsh reminder of the need for Hands, Face, Space and adhering to lockdown rules
Thank you to everyone who is being as careful as possible. To everyone else, we need your help please.
Thank you for your support
One wish for one of our patients was to be able to walk again on her golden wedding anniversary today - our senior physio enabled this to happen . Congratulations
@KettGeneral
Esele is a volunteer at KGH with ambitions to be a doctor.
We're proud to learn that he's been offered a place at Oxford University; and through the application process he talked about his time volunteering with us.
Good luck Esele.
Volunteer with us:
1/2 We'd like to thank the wonderful people who have sewn these super laundry bags for members of our Trust.
We've received 750 bags of differing sizes into our Trust - which is just fabulous.
#TeamKGH
🏥
#SewingBee
Our Lead Practice Development Nurse, Hayley Burns, has received the internationally recognised DAISY Nurse Leader award after being nominated by her colleagues. To see her amazing nominations go to
It was lovely for the Trust to pay tribute to the late Adam Parkes, our Sterile Services Manager who worked here for 32 years. Friends,colleagues and family of Adam planted a wild cherry tree in his memory on-site this afternoon. Thank you
@WoodlandTrust
for the kind donation 🌳
Jason from
#HowdensJoinery
stopped by KGH today.
Howden's have donated a range of PPE for our staff.
There were additional donations. Jason's wife Nikki donated some Wella products. Their daughters Etta-Sue and Lennon painted some lovely rainbow pictures for us.
#TeamKGH
🏥
Kettering General Hospital has received a top national award from mother and baby charity
@babylifeline
for its outstanding staff safety training work before, during, and after the Covid-19 pandemic.
Read more here
We're proud to announce that we've been shortlisted for 4
#HSJAwards
💊Outpatient IV antibiotics in the diabetic foot
🧑🏽⚕️Day Case Thoracoscopy
🚗Delivery Cycle Optimisation to Reduce Medicines Wastage
👩🏽🏫Using QSIR to support the delivery of a Urology One-Stop
Well done
#TeamKGH
Delighted to announce our
#HSJValue
Awards 2020 finalists are finally here! Congratulations to all of the fantastic
#NHS
teams that are featured on the shortlist. You can view the full shortlist here >
We have achieved a nationally recognised �� and difficult to achieve - quality standard for the way we collect information about joint replacement surgery to support patient safety. For more see
What lovely news! Well done to Jayne and everyone involved in her recovery from COVID-19.
Hope she's on the mend and getting some well needed rest and relaxation. 👍🏿👍🏽👍🏻
cc.
@NHFTNHS
@craigspencerUTT
#TeamKGH
🏥
#TeamNHFT
Please share - Some good news - My friend and Covid survivor Jayne Gerlach who caught Covid19 whilst working as a NHS health care worker in Kettering gets discharged from hospital after 129 days 58 of which were in ITU. She is alive because of our NHS heroes.
#nhscovidmiracle
We’ve received this letter from Niamh (11) and Ffion (7).
They’ve sent us a lovely message & picture of a rainbow - they’ve also put up signs in their windows to give people “hope and happiness”. 🌈
You guys are awesome for staying home and staying safe!
#TeamKGH
🏥
Today is the 72nd anniversary of the
#NHS
.
We want to use this opportunity to thank everyone who has supported us over the last few months:
🎁 Your gifts
👕 Donations
💪🏼 Support
It has kept us going and today we want to thank you. You are OUR heroes.
#NHS72
#NHSBirthday
Today we are really excited to launch
#NHSRainbowBadges
Before staff receive their badges, we’ve asked staff to attend a 30 minute training session. Training is being provided by local group
#LGBTQ
#QSpace
This scheme shows our support of our LGBTQ patients, visitors and staff
We were delighted to welcome the new Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, the Rt Hon Steve Barclay MP, to KGH today to learn more about how we are preparing for our hospital rebuild.
KGH is using a digital transformation programme to help it to improve patient safety during the
#COVID19
pandemic.
📱Read more on our website:
📼Watch the video:
#TeamKGH
🏥
#DigitalHospital
As a thank you to our staff, our Staff Health and Wellbeing group have been giving out goodie bags to the teams.
The goodie bags had drinks and sweet treats inc. Easter Eggs.
Debbie Needham (Our CEO) and Paula (Acting Director HR and OD) were on hand to help give out treats.
Molly Beard, Deputy Sister on Clifford Ward, has received a DAISY Award for the outstanding compassionate and sensitive care she provided for patients. To see more go to:
It's
#InternationalWomensDay
and we're taking this opportunity to celebrate the amazing women who work at KGH.
We have a workforce made up of 78% women and of staff who are in senior management roles, 75% are female.
Whatever role you play, we thank you for everything you do.
We officially launch our flu campaign on Monday - but today we offered our amazing Estates & facilities staff the opportunity to get their flu jab first!
We had nearly 100 staff members get their flu jab. You are wonderful - thank you for getting vaccinated
#IamAreYou
#TeamKGH
Thank you to
@jilliclaireT
who has made a fabulous donation of 76 goodie bags. These were given to our respiratory wards to acknowledge the hard work of both teams during the peak.
Claire is a body shop at home consultant and her customers gifted the items to make up the bags.
We are further restricting visiting to our hospital to help tackle the spread of
#COVID19
in order to protect both our patients and our staff.
With effect from Wed 25 March we will not allow any visitors to our hospital, with a few exceptions.
#TeamKGH
Those lovely people at DPD have kindly donated four iPads to KGH.
Tracey Smith from DPD said: "We recognises the fantastic work being carried out by those on the front line. We've donated the iPads to enable patients to connect face to face with people they care about"
#TeamKGH
We have launched a new procedure to help speed up the diagnosis of lung cancer and serious infections. The endobronchial ultrasound guided biopsy uses a £160,000 new ultrasonic bronchoscopy system and reduces waits for results and diagnosis for patients.