I am writing in response to the very disturbing article in the Leicester Mercury on 8th October stating that Leicester’s hospitals had the longest average waits in the country at over 17 months while the national average is around a year for ‘common’ operations.  Also, that a spokesperson from Leicester Hospitals stated that the pandemic […]

Reposted from Keep Our NHS Public. The new NHS bill in committee stage from September has been wrongly spun as a bill to limit privatisation and to promote integration. It does neither of these things but carries significant dangers for the NHS workforce that must be tackled and countered. The Health and Care Bill is […]

According to a report in the latest issue of Health Campaigns Together: “At a fringe meeting at the Tory Party conference in Manchester last weekend, Health Secretary Sajid Javid insisted that the government must stop “throwing cash” at the NHS, and that “there have to be . . . some significant reforms that make that […]

PRESS RELEASE. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. 10.09.2021 Save Our NHS Leicestershire supporters will be demonstrating outside Leicester City Hall on Charles Street with banners and placards from 4:45 to 5.30pm on Monday September 13th. They say they are demonstrating because of the Treasury threat not to fund fully the £450m hospital reorganisation scheme and because the […]

This week the government introduced new and dangerous legislation into Parliament – it is called the Health and Care Bill. The Bill divides the NHS in England into 42 different ‘systems’, each with its own tight budget with the principal aim of driving down the costs of health care. Recent governments have chosen to cut […]

PRESS RELEASE. JULY 29, 2021. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE A rally to celebrate the 73rd birthday of the NHS, and to demand pay justice for health workers and to oppose growing privatisation, is set to take place in Leicester City Centre this Saturday. The rally, called by Save Our NHS Leicestershire and backed by Leicester Unite […]

For the second time in three years, the Clinical Commissioning Groups of Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland have triggered the ire of the chair of the local authority committee tasked with scrutinising local NHS decisions and activity. The CCGs consulted the public in autumn 2020 about proposed changes to Leicester’s three acute hospitals and St Mary’ Birth Centre in Melton Mowbray. […]

Health campaigners at Save Our NHS Leicestershire have written an open letter to Andy Williams, Chief Executive of Clinical Commissioning Groups in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland, protesting attempts by local NHS bosses to ram through proposals which would drastically effect the future of acute hospital care in the region. The Report of Findings from last […]

PRESS RELEASE. 03.06.2021. Save Our NHS Leicestershire has presented a petition to the chair of the Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee, in advance of the forthcoming decision by local NHS leaders regarding the future of our acute hospitals. Local CCG leaders – who will make the decision – have set up […]

On September 28, 2020, the local Clinical Commissioning Groups, collaborating with University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, began a public consultation on plans to reorganise hospital services in Leicester, Leicestershire, and Rutland. The public consultation was called Building Better Hospitals For the Future (BBHFF) and ended on December 21. Costing over £450million, the plans involve […]