Save Our NHS Leicestershire hosted a health debate in the marginal constituency of Loughborough on Saturday December 7. This was the only hustings explicitly focusing on the health service in a constituency that could well end up being decisive in determining the national result. In attendance was Labour’s Stuart Brady, Lib Dem Ian Sharpe, and […]

PRESS RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. 03.12.2019 A Leicestershire-based campaign group is holding an election debate in Loughborough this Saturday to discuss the future of the NHS. Save Our NHS Leicestershire has invited all the main parliamentary candidates standing in Loughborough to speak at the event ahead of the General Election on December 12. Tom Barker, […]

Between 150 and 200 people packed the area around Leicester’s Clock Tower last Saturday to attend a demonstration called by Save Our NHS Leicestershire demonstration to highlight the crisis currently overwhelming our health service. The protest was due to be addressed by junior doctor Sonia Adesara who appeared in the recent film on the NHS, […]

PRESS RELEASE. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. 15.11.2019 A public protest will be held by Save Our NHS Leicestershire on Saturday November 16 to highlight the ongoing crisis in the health service and what campaigns describe as “serious inadequacies” in the local NHS trust’s plans to change hospital provision in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. The protest follows […]

University Hospitals of Leicester (UHL) NHS Trust has just received £450million funding from the Department of Health to reorganise acute hospital services in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. This money will be used to close the General Hospital as an acute hospital and consolidate acute services onto two sites – the Royal Infirmary and the Glenfield. […]

Press Release 07.11.2019. For Immediate Release An eight-year-old boy from Leicester, Jeona Toor, held a jumble sale last Saturday to raise money for a local NHS campaign group called Save Our NHS Leicestershire. Despite the awful weather, Jeona managed to raise an incredible £260. Why did Jeona do this? The local NHS Trust plans to […]

PRESS RELEASE. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 30.10.2019 Campaigners are calling for a delay in public consultation on new hospital building because they are concerned that the public does not have access to the information needed to make an informed assessment of the proposals. Campaigners believe local NHS leaders are rushing to consultation on the hospital reorganisation […]

Press Release. 1.10.2019 Local campaigners welcome the announcement to invest £450m in hospitals for Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland but have raised concerns about whether the current plans will provide enough facilities for the next 20 or 30 years. Steve Score, co-chair of Save Our NHS Leicestershire said: “We welcome much needed investment in our local hospitals. However, we […]

Save Our NHS Leicestershire, alongside Campaign Against NHS Privatization, is proud to co-host a free film screening of Under the Knife – a rousing documentary about the decimation of the NHS under succesive governments and the growing fightback – at the Phoenix Cinema on Monday October 14, at 7.15pm. Narrated by award-winning actor, Alison Steadman, […]

THE NHS IS IN CRISIS. Waiting times are out of control, cancer targets are frequently missed, patients face lengthy delays in seeing a GP, health care is increasingly being rationed, staff are overworked and underpaid, and carers are often unsupported. The Tory government claims that the NHS is receiving record levels of funding. This may […]