University Hospitals of Leicester (UHL) is planning to reorganise acute hospital services in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland via a project for which it is seeking capital investment from the department of Health of around £370m. The plans involve consolidating services away from Leicester General onto two sites – the Royal Infirmary and the Glenfield – […]

Save Our NHS Leicestershire’s petition calling for a consultation on the planned removal of intensive care from the Leicester General closed on Friday, with nearly 2,000 signatures (804 paper and 1132 online). The closure of the petition coincides with the end of University Hospitals of Leicester’s (UHL) public engagement exercise – a series of meetings […]

A Leicester hospital spokesman last week asked campaigners to campaign for his hospital’s investment plans. But campaigners from Save Our NHS Leicestershire have said they are unable to support UHL’s plans to change hospital services unless the plans change. Mark Wightman, Director of Communications and Strategy for University Hospitals of Leicester was speaking at an […]

Local NHS leaders want to close the Leicester General Hospital as an acute hospital. This is one of the reasons they are removing intensive care. They say removing intensive care from the General Hospital does not make the future removal of services inevitable. However, it clearly takes the hospital a step closer to non-viability. They […]

Sign our petition calling for a full public consultation into UHL’s plans: https://www.change.org/p/for-a-public-consultation-on-plans-to-remove-intensive-care-beds-from-leicester-general Leicester’s hospital trust wants to go full steam ahead with closing intensive care (ICU) beds at Leicester General Hospital. Confirmation of their decision to do this without any public consultation is to be put to a joint meeting of the local Clinical […]

The Save Our NHS Leicestershire (SONHSL) campaign is very disappointed that Healthwatch Leicester and Leicestershire have decided to go against the recommendations of the Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Joint Health Scrutiny Committee and back the removal of intensive care beds from the Leicester General without a consultation. In a report issued yesterday, they stated: “After […]

Around 90 people gathered for a public meeting on Saturday called by Save Our NHS Leicestershire (SONHSL) to discuss controversial local plans to remove intensive care beds from Leicester General Hospital without a consultation. Campaigners believe that the removal of the beds will be the first step toward downgrading the General Hospital as an acute […]

Campaigners in Leicester are organising a public meeting to discuss what they believe may be an illegal move by local NHS bosses. The campaigners are questioning the legality of a decision by local NHS bosses to downgrade the Leicester General Hospital without consulting the public. Local NHS bosses have admitted that they made the decision […]

Save Our NHS Leicestershire are protesting against plans to cut intensive care beds at the General Hospital, including the proposed sale of land at the General. In Leicestershire, the so-called Sustainability and Transformation Plan is the blueprint for local NHS services over the next five years. It includes “Plans for reconfiguration of Leicester City Hospitals […]

Controversal plans to remove the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) from Leicester General Hospital without a full public consultation have been met with mixture of shock and anger by the people of Leicestershire and Rutland, but also with serious concern from a group of academics. In August 2018, a report was issued by Dr Janet Underwood […]