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 […]

Last Thursday’s Leicester City Council Health Scrutiny Commission meeting was met by a lobby of up to sixty demonstrators, concerned with proposals that could lead to the loss of acute services from Leicester General Hospital without a public consultation. Speaking with BBC Radio Leicester, Steve Score, co-Chair of Save Our NHS Leicestershire, explained why the […]

As NHS campaigners, patients, and members of the public we are furious that those running Leicester hospitals are taking a significant step towards closing Leicester General as an acute hospital without any public consultation. University Hospitals Leicester NHS Trust (UHL), which runs the local hospitals, plans to remove the intensive care unit from the General, […]

The successes of recent NHS campaigns are making waves across the country, giving confidence to the public, patients and workers to fight back against unjust proposals. In September 2017, there was a victory for low-paid domestic workers at Barts Trust in London. In February 2018, there was a victory for campaigners in Mansfield, who fought […]