Ten years of underfunding have done untold damage to the NHS: Shortages of hospital beds and diagnostic equipment Run-down facilities, a massive backlog of repairs and broken promises about building “new hospitals” Unacceptable delays in getting to see a GP Hours to wait for an ambulance because there are too few beds and too little […]

Press release on behalf of Save Our NHS Leicestershire – for IMMEDIATE use This Saturday, January 28th, NHS staff and campaigners from national organisation Keep Our NHS Public [1] will stage around 20 events across England to mark a national ‘Day of Action’.[2] This emergency action has been called in response to the immediate NHS […]

Writing in the Telegraph (December 20, 2022), Steve Barclay, the Conservative Health Secretary, claimed that the action of Ambulance unions, whose members voted to take strike action across much of the country, represented a “conscious choice to inflict harm on patients”. So, what do we make of the sombre Leicester Mercury headline on News Year […]

Ten years of under-funding before the pandemic did untold damage to the NHS, allowing it to fall into disrepair. The damage to the service drove some staff out, leaving other staff to face: • Inadequate staffing levels • Excessive workload pressures • Working unpaid hours • Lack of respite since the pandemic • Pay cuts […]

In the Autumn of 2020, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust carried out an online public consultation over proposals worth £450 million to reorganise acute hospital services in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. The plans included the closure of Leicester General Hospital as an acute hospital. Part of the motivation for this closure, so said the […]

Health campaigners in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland have waded into the debate on Leicester City Council’s proposed Workplace Parking Levy. Save Our NHS Leicestershire, which draws together public, patients and health care workers, published a statement earlier this week explaining why they could not back the council’s plans. A spokesperson for Save Our NHS Leicestershire, […]

On Monday May 9 at 7pm, Save Our NHS Leicestershire held a special meeting to discuss Leicester City Council’s proposed Workplace Parking Levy and its implications for public health.[1] The Levy will affect workplaces with 11 or more car parking spaces by asking them to pay £550 per space per year. It is a controversial […]

It might, at first look, appear churlish to criticise £1 million investment in Rutland Memorial Hospital (RMH). After all shouldn’t we be grateful that University Hospitals Leicester (UHL) are not closing it like they are St. Mary’s Birthing Centre in Melton? Yet, beyond the spin it is worth noting that in 2017 consulting engineers were […]

Members and supporters of Save Our NHS Leicestershire were proud to support the RMT picket line outside Leicester Railway Station last week. Back in June, Savid Javid, the Conservative Health Secretary, accused RMT workers of putting patients at risk; highlighting possible delays to treatment due to NHS staff being unable to get to work. However, […]

It’s now almost four years since our campaign was established, growing out of a successful campaign in 2016-17 to save the children’s heart unit, then at the Glenfield Hospital and now at the Royal Infirmary. We have had some significant achievements during this time (to read about our earlier record, check out this report from March last […]