New £46m Urgent Care Hub To Be Built

Kettering General Hospital

A new Urgent Care Hub for North Northamptonshire is to be built after the government approved funding of £46m.

The facility will be at Kettering General Hospital and include a new Accident and Emergency Department.

The existing A and E unit, which saw a temporary extension installed in 2013, was designed to cope with 100 patients a day, but is now regularly seeing over 300.

Health Minister Edward Argar made the announcement in the Houses of Parliament today following a seven year campaign by the the hospital and Kettering MP Philip Hollobone.

The temporary extension to the A & E Department