Kettering General Hospital

[Tony Spearing]

  For the second year running Kettering General has been awarded Two Stars in the NHS Performance ratings.   My opinion of the hospital is high, but how do you rate our hospital staff.  If you would care to check out the detail here are the links for 2002 and 2003.

2003 http://www.ratings.chi.nhs.uk/Reports/SummaryReportCore.asp?TrustCode=RNQ

2002 http://www.doh.gov.uk/performanceratings/2002/o_rnq5vlv9.html

Let's give KGH a big vote of confidence!!  

[Alan Lodge]

  It's a good hospital if you can get parked. The staff are excellent.
How will it cope if the Milton Keynes & South Midland Study gets the go ahead? I bet the houses come before the infrastructure!

[PytchleyPerson]

   My experience in the maternity unit (Rockingham) was good despite the complications with my pregnancy & the birth. The midwifes are superb and do what I now consider to THE most important job in the world; assisting new life!

[sonia]

my experiance at kettering general when giving birth to my children was the most horrid experiance i can remember with my first daughter i went in early like most first mum's do had a lovely midwife then shift's changed and the midwife that delivered my first daughter didnt even speak to me and nearly missed the birth as she was busy else where. i thought this was a one off so when i returned a second time to have my second daughter 4years later i was so pleased i had a young midwife and a student they made me feel comfortable and lighten the mood but then it was shift change i was horrified when i had yet another rude midwife i would never return to the hospital to have anymore children and to be quite honest it has put me off ever having a baby again it turned my wonderfull experiance in to one id rather forget.

[Angus]

We had 2 children in Kettering and the experience was mostly ok. I felt that their were insufficient staff available and the mid-wifes were frequently away looking after more noisy labours. However they were pleasant and did a reasonably good job I think. the first labour was 3.5 hrs and the second was 21 hrs followed by an emergency ceaser, so I think we saw the full spectrum of care.

I think the nurses that cared for my wife in Kettering General after the birth were really excellent, very helpful caring and nice.

[mum to many]

 i had 3 children born at this hospital ,i had 2 children down south(a lot better by far) ,i would rate kettering hospital as POOR due to RUDENESS and NOT ENOUGH STAFF, i was sent home when in labour as i was told i was not in established labour   i asked to stay as i know i am quick but was told no,   yet this made no difference ,i ended up delivering the baby myself in the car,i am having a home birth with any pregnancies now,a women does not need this !!!!! not nice being treated with such a mannor when the midwifes are in and out of the room due to not enough staff .

[C Archer]

I recently, March 05 had a knee replacement at KGH. I was an in patient for three days and the treatment and care I received was very good. I agree that the staff are under pressure due to shortages of staff  but that in no way appeared to detract from the indiviual care they gave to all patients on my ward. I was kept fully informed of what the operation was about by the surgeon(s) and felt that KGH made a physically painful experience more bearable by their efficiency, professionalism and care.

Chris Archer

[victor jackson]

Hello,my experience was with A&E They had two people waiting to be seen
I was being booked in the nurse said it could be long wait,no problem I said
she suggested I see my doctor.I was amazed fell down stairs also dizzy spell,s walking stick disabled,heart condition.Complained isnt it funny they cant find the nurse, said they were sorry.healthcare authority is looking into it .bad hospital

[Nicola Sawyer]

I am a staff nurse and was admitted to KGH having suffered a stroke aged 24. I wasn't given a brain scan for a week, I had no physio (I was admitted over Easter holidays) If my husband hadn't come in and cared for me I wouldn't have had a bath. The staff were rude and uncaring, the ward was dirty, the food was inedible. I was discharged home unable to climb stairs or prepare food. I'm so very angry with that place. God knows how it got two stars!

[rebecca]

i dont think you can get enough information from the site and / or the hospital sorry !!!!!!!

[Peter Moreton]

I have to say that my recent experience of Kettering Hospital is that you will only get any attention if you are either A: About to die, or B: Have private medical insurance, and can therefore go into the Fotheringhay ward.

It infuriates me that every time I need these people, I am told something along the lines of "The waiting list is 6 months, unless you have private insurance, in which case the consultant will see you tomorrow"

The final insult is to have to pay £2 to park each time I visit the wretched place. (Note that this is the most expensive car-parking in Kettering).

Of course, the hospital staff are individually all honourable and caring folk, it's just when you put them together into a giant organisation such as the NHS, they seem to be unable to deliver an acceptable level of service. This is of course not a comment upon Kettering specifically, but rather an observation that the UK NHS, which happens to be the THIRD LARGEST EMPLOYER ON PLANET EARTH, is actually unable to to satisfy it's the majority of it's customers..........

[GaryS]

My own experiences of Kettering General Hospital are mixed, but on the balance I'd have to rate them as VERY POOR on the grounds of consistency and complacency.

First time round was very good. Company health care plan was paying for a minor op' done by Mr Jenner (who was excellent) and accomodated in Fotheringay where the nurse:pateint ration was 2:1. Food was crap but at least you got the option of a glass of wine with it!

A few years later, having run myself right down caring for my wife and her terminally-ill brother, I was admitted (by ambulance) by my GP with pleurisy. I got to KGH at 4pm. It took until 11pm before I saw a doctor ( I kid you not ) by which time I had developed full-blown pneumonia.

At 10:30pm I'd asked my wife to take me home regardless. The nurses advised me that by discharging myself against medical advice I might not be re-admitted if I got worse. I told them that having been there for more than six hours and having not seen a doctor, was she taking the p**s? I went on that if I was going to die I'd sooner do it at home than in some shitty hospital corridor. Amazing how quick they found a doctor after that.

I spent the next couple of days in the MAU (aka Hell!) before being bumped upstairs to Fotheringay (because they had no NHS beds and to stay in MAU any longer would have fucked their targets/statistics.

A few days later I was shunted downstairs to an NHS ward (after someone had died) and immediately warned to keep an eye on my oxygen supply because one of the patients (who they'd been unable to transfer to psych) was in the habit of creeping round in the night and dismantling the gas supply kit.

After nine days in that Hell Hole I managed to con my way home. I did this by making sure that the electric fan on the table beside my bed was blowing constantly into my right ear. This is the ear by which they took my temperature.

My wife collected me from hospital. They'd managed to lose my blood pressure tablets. I felt like s**t but by the gods was I glad to get out of there.

I was still convalescing when my brother-in-law died. Had it not been for my own expediency I might have gone too.

I've more to tell of my wife's experiences at KGH but that will have to wait for another night.

Cheers
Gary

[PeterMoreton]

Gordon Brown was on Radio 4 today bragging how the NHS used to be "funded 36Billions per annum, and very soon will be funded to 96Billions per annum". He seems to be unable to spot the obvious flaw, that after doubling the spend, the NHS is still fundamentally broken.

Every large state-owned monopoly (think: British Rail, British Coal, British Leyland etc) has always been hopeless, because there is no competition, and therefore, no reason not to be hopeless. It's time to split up the NHS into several competing organistions....

[ladyapol03]

Of course, the hospital staff are individually all honorable and caring folk, it's just when you put them together into a giant organization, they seem to be unable to deliver an acceptable level of service.





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[dudieezper]

The staffs of the hospital are accommodating and they are very approachable. But it is not enough to bring back the old glory of the hospital. The future increase in funding is good for its rehabilitation and update of medical equipments. Indianapolis Hospitals