On September 28, 2020, the local Clinical Commissioning Groups, collaborating with University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, began a public consultation on plans to reorganise hospital services in Leicester, Leicestershire, and Rutland. The public consultation was called Building Better Hospitals For the Future (BBHFF) and ended on December 21. Costing over £450million, the plans involve […]

It is astonishing that our local NHS leaders in the Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) have only just published the Report of Findings following last year’s important consultation on the future of the acute hospitals in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland (Building Better Hospitals For the Future). This Report of Findings is an analysis of public responses […]

Campaigners at Save Our NHS Leicestershire send their solidarity to all NHS workers who have sacrificed so much during this pandemic, only to be offered a derisory 1% pay increase from the government. We think that the government has treated you disgracefully and we would back you fully should you take industrial action. Of course, […]

Following other correspondents who have questioned NHS leadership decisions, I want to express concern about the decision by local NHS leaders to hold a consultation during a pandemic lockdown when elsewhere in the country such public consultation has been postponed as unsuitable during pandemic restrictions. The pandemic meant the consultation was driven online – which […]

It’s been around 30 months since Save Our NHS Leicestershire was established and we have certainly made ourselves felt in that time. This report from February last year explains our record over the first 18 months of our existence: http://saveournhsleicestershire.org/2020/02/12/save-our-nhs-leicestershire-why-you-should-get-involved/ Since this report was written, however, we have been faced with an historic public health […]

PRESS RELEASE. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. 08.02.2021 Save our NHS Leicestershire is aware that two former NHS bosses have been reported to the Care Quality Commission (CQC) after a £46 million hole was found in 2018-2019 accounts of Leicester’s Hospitals, leaving the trust in the nationally ‘unprecedented’ position of being unable to submit ‘true and fair […]

Conundrum: when is a closure not a closure? The Leicester Mercury added a footnote to Saturday 26th December  letter “Greater investment in our hospitals needed” as follows:  ‘although it is proposed to make the Leicester General Hospital smaller, no plans have been put forward to close it”. Indeed,throughout the 12 week ‘consultation’ on the future […]

Save Our NHS Leicestershire held the last of a series of online public meetings by Zoom on Tuesday 15 December. The difference this time was that we invited representatives of local NHS bosses to come to hear our concerns about the hospital reorganisation plans. The discussion was urgent because the deadline for the consultation plans […]

With the £450million hospital reorganisation consultation drawing to a close on Monday December 21st, many people in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland are still none the wiser about the plans. Part of the reason for this is because the local Clinical Commissioning Group saw fit to run a public consultation in the midst of an extreme […]

Save Our NHS Leicestershire is hosting an online public meeting on Tuesday December 15 at 7pm to discuss the £450million hospital reorganisation plans in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. Campaigners will be joined by speakers from the local NHS who are running the public consultation which ends on 21st December. Tom Barker, a spokesperson for Save […]