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 […]

It is astonishing that our local NHS leaders in the Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) have only just published the Report of Findings following last year’s important consultation on the future of the acute hospitals in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland (Building Better Hospitals For the Future). This Report of Findings is an analysis of public responses […]

Campaigners at Save Our NHS Leicestershire send their solidarity to all NHS workers who have sacrificed so much during this pandemic, only to be offered a derisory 1% pay increase from the government. We think that the government has treated you disgracefully and we would back you fully should you take industrial action. Of course, […]

Following other correspondents who have questioned NHS leadership decisions, I want to express concern about the decision by local NHS leaders to hold a consultation during a pandemic lockdown when elsewhere in the country such public consultation has been postponed as unsuitable during pandemic restrictions. The pandemic meant the consultation was driven online – which […]

It’s been around 30 months since Save Our NHS Leicestershire was established and we have certainly made ourselves felt in that time. This report from February last year explains our record over the first 18 months of our existence: http://saveournhsleicestershire.org/2020/02/12/save-our-nhs-leicestershire-why-you-should-get-involved/ Since this report was written, however, we have been faced with an historic public health […]

PRESS RELEASE. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. 08.02.2021 Save our NHS Leicestershire is aware that two former NHS bosses have been reported to the Care Quality Commission (CQC) after a £46 million hole was found in 2018-2019 accounts of Leicester’s Hospitals, leaving the trust in the nationally ‘unprecedented’ position of being unable to submit ‘true and fair […]

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 […]