Monday, 10 July 2017

A&E at KGH visited almost 350 times by just 10 people last year

A&E at KGH visited almost 350 times by just 10 people last year The 10 most frequent attenders at KGH’s A&E department racked up almost 350 visits in 12 months last year.

A Freedom of Information request by the Northants Telegraph revealed they totalled 345 visits - close to a one a day between them - in 2016.

The visitors included a 35-year-old female who attended 47 times and a 59-year-old male who visited 46 times – almost one visit a week.

Kettering General Hospital’s lead nurse for urgent care, David Anderson, said: “As a general rule the patients who attend the hospital’s A&E department on a very regular basis have underlying personal problems.

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