Big changes planned for how Northamptonshire’s two acute hospitals operate

Under par hospitals plan to revolutionise services and become centres of excellence for cancer and cardiac care, as current way of working is not sustainable

By Sarah Ward

Last year the two trusts that run the general hospitals at Kettering and Northampton joined to form a single group - the Northamptonshire University Hospitals Group.

Now clinicians have come up with a new plan which they hope will turn around the performance of the hospitals and provide a better service for patients across the county.

They a…