It’s now almost four years since our campaign was established, growing out of a successful campaign in 2016-17 to save the children’s heart unit, then at the Glenfield Hospital and now at the Royal Infirmary. We have had some significant achievements during this time (to read about our earlier record, check out this report from March last […]

Hospital Services Our local NHS hospitals require significant investment to improve facilities for patients and the working environment for staff. The public have been consulted on specific plans for this and we welcome government investment but we have several concerns. Large scale investment of hundreds of millions of pounds must result in hospital facilities which […]

Thanks to everyone who came out yesterday to support the #SOSNHS protests in Leicester and Market Harborough. The protests were part of a Day of Action taking place at more than 70 locations across England and Scotland calling for, amongst other things, an immediate injection of £20bn into #OurNHS as a step toward addressing 10 […]

Health campaigners from Save Our NHS Leicestershire and the Campaign Against NHS Privatization are holding protests in Leicester City Centre and Market Harborough on Saturday February 26, as part of a Day of Action currently taking place at around 60 locations nationally. Campaigners across the country believe that the crises currently facing the NHS, such […]

Join the protest: Gallowtree Gate (by the Natwest), Leicester, 12noon  Saturday February 26 The NHS is in crisis. This crisis is not caused by Covid-19, although the pandemic has made it worse. The crisis has been caused by government policies including: A ‘decade of austerity’ in which NHS and social care funding fell behind the […]

2021 has been a year like no other for most of us, but in particular for our ‘key workers’. The daily sacrifices made by NHS and care workers, for example, to safeguard the health and surety of the rest of us throughout the pandemic, has rightly raised them in the esteem of the majority of […]

  A PDF of the letter can be found here: LetterThorntonICS-Dec21 In November this year, the Conservative’s controversial Health and Care Bill passed its final reading in the House of Commons. Amongst other things, the Bill divides the NHS in England into 42 different ‘systems’, each with its own tight budget with the principal aim […]

I am writing in response to the very disturbing article in the Leicester Mercury on 8th October stating that Leicester’s hospitals had the longest average waits in the country at over 17 months while the national average is around a year for ‘common’ operations.  Also, that a spokesperson from Leicester Hospitals stated that the pandemic […]

Reposted from Keep Our NHS Public. The new NHS bill in committee stage from September has been wrongly spun as a bill to limit privatisation and to promote integration. It does neither of these things but carries significant dangers for the NHS workforce that must be tackled and countered. The Health and Care Bill is […]

According to a report in the latest issue of Health Campaigns Together: “At a fringe meeting at the Tory Party conference in Manchester last weekend, Health Secretary Sajid Javid insisted that the government must stop “throwing cash” at the NHS, and that “there have to be . . . some significant reforms that make that […]