Overcrowded and no longer fit for purpose
What’s the hold up with Kettering General Hospital’s promised Accident and Emergency department rebuild?
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By Sarah Ward
Kettering General Hospital’s Accident and Emergency department is bursting at the seams.
Built in the mid 1990s with a capacity to see 100 patients a day, it now often has 300 people daily coming through its doors and the numbers are rising as the local population grows and ages.
Five years ago, a visiting consultant said the hospital had t…