Conundrum: when is a closure not a closure? The Leicester Mercury added a footnote to Saturday 26th December  letter “Greater investment in our hospitals needed” as follows:  ‘although it is proposed to make the Leicester General Hospital smaller, no plans have been put forward to close it”. Indeed,throughout the 12 week ‘consultation’ on the future […]

Save Our NHS Leicestershire held the last of a series of online public meetings by Zoom on Tuesday 15 December. The difference this time was that we invited representatives of local NHS bosses to come to hear our concerns about the hospital reorganisation plans. The discussion was urgent because the deadline for the consultation plans […]

With the £450million hospital reorganisation consultation drawing to a close on Monday December 21st, many people in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland are still none the wiser about the plans. Part of the reason for this is because the local Clinical Commissioning Group saw fit to run a public consultation in the midst of an extreme […]

Save Our NHS Leicestershire is hosting an online public meeting on Tuesday December 15 at 7pm to discuss the £450million hospital reorganisation plans in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. Campaigners will be joined by speakers from the local NHS who are running the public consultation which ends on 21st December. Tom Barker, a spokesperson for Save […]

NHS bosses have been told that, subject to public consultation, they will receive government funding of £450m to implement a controversial reorganisation of hospital services across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. Amongst other things, the plan will lead to the closure of Leicester General as an acute hospital, with the majority of land sold for other […]

I have very serious concerns that now is NOT the right time to hold a crucial public consultation over the reconfiguration of Leicester hospitals.  Second national lockdown aside, we are in the midst of a worldwide pandemic. Whilst welcoming the recent allocation of £450M to re-configure Leicester Hospitals, how on earth are the general public […]

Only five week’s to go in the twelve week long public consultation to reorganise Leicester’s hospitals. How many people have received a paper copy of the NHS brochure explaining how to get involved in the consultation? It was understood a brochure would come through everyone’s door to explain the plan. I believe more than 2000 […]

Save Our NHS Leicestershire has been holding a series of online public meetings during the consutation to discuss the local NHS Trust’s £450million plans to reorganise hospital services in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. Our first meeting on Monday evening was a huge success, with close to 40 people in attendance and a very high level […]

St Mary’s Birth Centre in Melton will be closed if the local NHS Trust’s plans go ahead I recently tried to participate in an on-line meeting regarding the future of Maternity services in Leicester, which may lead to the closure of St Mary’s Birth Centre in Melton Mowbray. I made several unsuccessful attempts to log […]

We write in response to the report by local NHS leaders printed in the Mercury’s letters page last Saturday (‘Setting the record straight or n hospitals proposals’, November 7). NHS bosses say they want to “set the record straight” on the claim that they “have not considered Covid-19” when thinking about the £450million reorganisation of […]