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What’s the hold up with Kettering General Hospital’s promised Accident and Emergency department rebuild?

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Sep 08, 2021
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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…

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