Northampton General Hospital
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NHS Trust
What we do Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust provides general acute services for a population of 380,000 and hyper-acute stroke, vascular and renal services to people living throughout the whole of Northamptonshire, a population of 684,000. The Trust is also an accredited cancer centre and provides cancer services to a wider population of 880,000 who live in Northamptonshire and parts of Buckinghamshire.
Our Strictly stars strut their stuff
In addition to the main hospital site, which is located close to Northampton town centre, the trust also provides day surgery and outpatient services at Danetre Hospital in Daventry.
Northampton General Hospital’s movers and shakers are being asked to put their dancing shoes on in aid of a good cause. Eighteen contestants from around the hospital will be battling it out this month for the honour of lifting the glitterball trophy in our very own version of the hit BBC Strictly dance show.
We provide the full range of outpatients, diagnostics, inpatient and day case elective and emergency care and also a growing range of specialist treatments that distinguishes our services from many district general hospitals.
All staff taking part, who have been coached by the Step by Step dance school, will be raising money for the hospital’s chemotherapy refurbishment appeal and charitable fund.
Our vision and values
Strictly NGH takes place at the Deco Theatre, Northampton on Saturday 14th June at 7.30pm. Tickets are £15 and available from the Deco – visit their website at http://www.thedeco.co.uk and select the ‘booking’ tab.
Our vision is to provide the best possible care for all of our patients. This requires NGH to be recognised as a hospital that delivers safe, clinically effective acute services focused entirely on the needs of the patient, their relatives and carers. These services may be delivered from our acute or community hospital sites or by our staff in the community. Our prime focus is to provide the best possible care for all of our patients, regardless of the setting where this is undertaken. Our values are: ◗ We put patient safety above all else
Safety education initiative shortlisted for national award NGH has been shortlisted for the finals of the Patient Safety and Care Awards 2014, after producing a training course designed to help doctors of tomorrow become more safety aware.
◗ We aspire to excellence
NGH consultant anaesthetist, intensivist and patient safety lead Dr Jonny Wilkinson (left) said: “Junior doctors are right at the front-line in terms of caring for patients, and we wanted to help them understand their vital role in being
◗ We reflect, we learn, we improve ◗ We respect and support each other
Who we are Chairman Paul Farenden | Chief executive Dr Sonia Swart | Chief operating officer Deborah Needham | Interim medical director Dr Mike Wilkinson| Interim director of nursing, midwifery and patient services Jane Bradley | Director of finance Simon Lazarus | Director of facilities and capital development Charles Abolins | Director of strategy and partnerships Chris Pallot | Director of workforce and transformation Janine Brennan | Non-executive directors Graham Kershaw, David Noble, Nick Robertson, Liz Searle, Phil Zeidler.
Contact us NGH all departments: 01604 634700 Website: www.northamptongeneral.nhs.uk
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able to drive changes to improve patient safety.” The programme, known as ‘Aspiring to Excellence’, guides final year medical students through a stimulating, interactive, consultant-led programme, focusing on many of the patient safety issues faced at the hospital. It has proved both popular and successful, being over-subscribed each year. Many safety improvements have been introduced as a result of the students’ involvement. The NGH team have been invited to the awards ceremony in London on 15 July, when the winners will be announced. Whether or not they win, the team are confident that the course can be developed as a teaching package for other trusts and medical schools, bringing it to a wider population of our doctors of tomorrow.
For the record We apologise for an error that crept in to our article about endoscopy in the Spring issue of Insight. A reference to difficulty in swallowing was referred to as dysphasia, when the correct term should be dysphagia. We are grateful to Mr Jehovian Wormleighton of Overstone Lodge for pointing out the mistake.