NHS bosses have been told that, subject to public consultation, they will receive government funding of £450m to implement their controversial reorganisation of hospital services across Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. Formal public consultation will last for 12 weeks between 28th September and 21st December 2020. What will change? Leicester General Hospital will close as an […]

Effective community services are crucial, according to NHS bosses, to the success of proposals to reconfigure Leicester’s hospital service. (City’s £450M Care Package, Sep 28 ’20) In the consultation documentation there is frequent reference to work in a community setting but no details are given or justification for changing the clinical pathways so that more […]

Letter sent to the Leicester Mercury on Tuesday September 29, 2020: The public consultation to reorganise Leicester’s hospitals began on Monday. These plans include, amongst other things, closing the Leicester General Hospital as an acute hospital and St Mary’s Birthing Unit in Melton; concentrating maternity services onto the Leicester Royal Infirmary; and providing a modest […]

Save Our NHS Leicestershire is staging a protest in support of fair pay rises for NHS and care workers on Saturday 22nd August at 12 noon in Jubilee Square, LE1 5LB. Tom Barker, Secretary of SONHSL, said: “Over the last 10 years, healthcare workers have seen the real value of their salaries collapse by up […]

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 […]