Kettering General Hospital is an
NHS
The National Health Service (NHS) is the term for the publicly funded health care, publicly funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom: the National Health Service (England), NHS Scotland, NHS Wales, and Health and Social Care (Northern ...
district hospital in
Kettering
Kettering is a market town, market and industrial town, industrial town in the North Northamptonshire district of Northamptonshire, England, west of Cambridge, England, Cambridge, southwest of Peterborough, southeast of Leicester and north- ...
,
Northamptonshire
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, England. Mainly serving the unitary authority area of
North Northamptonshire
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, it is managed by the
Kettering General Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
History
The hospital, which replaced a small local dispensary, was opened after a fund-raising campaign by the Hon.
Charles Spencer MP in October 1897.
An operating theatre and extra consulting rooms opened in 1902, an X-ray department opened in 1905 and an eye department opened in 1908.
[ It joined the ]National Health Service
The National Health Service (NHS) is the term for the publicly funded health care, publicly funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom: the National Health Service (England), NHS Scotland, NHS Wales, and Health and Social Care (Northern ...
in 1948.[ A new accident and emergency department opened in 1993, the Centenary Wing opened in 2000 and the Jubilee Wing, for the treatment of dermatology patients, opened in 2003.][ The new Foundation Wing, which included children's and cardiac wards and a new intensive care unit, was completed in April 2013.
In 2021 the hospital was said to have the 'most cramped and limited emergency department in the UK'. It was allocated £46 million for an urgent care hub but the trust pleaded for £6 million in 2021/2 and £29m in 2022–23 to start making improvements to the department.]
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Buildings and structures in Kettering
Hospital buildings completed in 1897
NHS hospitals in England
Hospitals in Northamptonshire