After the ongoing and traumatic experience of the coronavirus pandemic the central importance of our NHS has never been clearer. It is appropriate, therefore, that its 72nd birthday was celebrated with a weekend of events, from vigils to remember the dead, car-cavalcades, to socially distanced protests organised under the banner of ‘Our NHS Deserves Better’. […]

One-hundred frontline care workers at a residential home in Leicestershire are being told they will be sacked if they refuse to sign new contracts with pay cuts of up to 30%. It’s been suggested that the management at Leicestershire County Care Ltd are using the pandemic as cover for plans that they have long wanted […]

The 10 inpatient hospital beds were closed   on a “temporary” basis on 13th May, without any prior announcement, due to safety measures claimed by the Trust during the Covid-19 pandemic. The Community Hospital has been under threat of closure for almost 4 years, but there was fierce backlash from Campaigners and the local community who […]

Since the introduction of the Sustainability and Transformation Plan in 2016 and subsequent Community Re-Design, via Better Care Together,  we have fought relentlessly to Save our cottage hospital, Feilding Palmer Cottage Hospital – Lutterworth which has been under threat of closure. This week we were staggered to learn that due to the Covid – 19 […]

PRESS RELEASE. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 24.04.2020 With the Covid 19 pandemic putting immense strain on our services, on April 11 Save Our NHS Leicestershire launched an initiative to ask carers in residential and domiciliary settings to speak up about their experiences. The responses the group received have now been written up into a report [copied […]

On Wednesday March 11, the World Health Organisation finally declared a global pandemic, after the COVID 19 virus spread into 114 countries and killed more than 4,000 people. After a decade of austerity, the NHS is woefully unprepared to fight this outbreak. There is currently a national staffing shortage of more than 100,000 workers. We […]

University Hospitals of Leicester (UHL) NHS Trust refused to comment on their controversial plans to reorganise local hospitals, which include the closure of Leicester General as an acute hospital, with beds then crammed into the Royal Infirmary and the Glenfield, despite being given two weeks notice by BBC Radio Leicester. The BBC’s Tim Parker had […]

The following report was sent to Save Our NHS Leicestershire by an NHS worker at the Leicester Royal Infirmary. We have not undertaken an independent check on all the issues raised in this report but we believe the source is reliable although for obvious reasons wishes to remain anonymous. “When we moved into the new […]

Future site map of General Hospital – can you spot it? University Hospitals of Leicester (UHL) NHS Trust has been granted £450million from the government to reorganise acute hospital services in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. Save Our NHS Leicestershire welcomes the investment in our hospitals after many years of little funding. We also welcome the […]

First of all, we want to take this opportunity to wish all members, supporters and affiliates a belated Happy New Year and to thank you for your continued support. 2019 was a difficult year politically, but we hope you will continue to fight alongside us in defence of our NHS. In the eighteen months since […]