PRESS RELEASE. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 30.10.2019 Campaigners are calling for a delay in public consultation on new hospital building because they are concerned that the public does not have access to the information needed to make an informed assessment of the proposals. Campaigners believe local NHS leaders are rushing to consultation on the hospital reorganisation […]

Press Release. 1.10.2019 Local campaigners welcome the announcement to invest £450m in hospitals for Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland but have raised concerns about whether the current plans will provide enough facilities for the next 20 or 30 years. Steve Score, co-chair of Save Our NHS Leicestershire said: “We welcome much needed investment in our local hospitals. However, we […]

Save Our NHS Leicestershire, alongside Campaign Against NHS Privatization, is proud to co-host a free film screening of Under the Knife – a rousing documentary about the decimation of the NHS under succesive governments and the growing fightback – at the Phoenix Cinema on Monday October 14, at 7.15pm. Narrated by award-winning actor, Alison Steadman, […]

THE NHS IS IN CRISIS. Waiting times are out of control, cancer targets are frequently missed, patients face lengthy delays in seeing a GP, health care is increasingly being rationed, staff are overworked and underpaid, and carers are often unsupported. The Tory government claims that the NHS is receiving record levels of funding. This may […]

Twelve trade union branches, representing tens-of-thousands of workers across Leicester and Leicestershire, have endorsed an open letter directed at the chairman of University Hospitals of Leicester (UHL) NHS Trust Karamjit Singh, raising serious concerns about proposed changes to Leicester’s hospitals. UHL is planning to reorganise acute hospital services in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland via a […]

The following statement was agreed, after a period of discussion, at a Save Our NHS Leicestershire steering committee meeting on Monday August 19, 2019. Save Our NHS Leicestershire welcomes the recent increase in public debate about the problem of air pollution in Leicester. This is particularly pressing in the city centre and around the ring […]

Save Our NHS Leicestershire (SONHSL) is proud to send its solidarity to the Lincolnshire Health Visitors in their valiant action against pay cuts and changes to their contracts. Since 2015, more than a quarter of Health Visitor jobs have been cut, but this is the first strike of its kind in the country. SONHSL has […]

The Leicester Mercury published a report earlier this week on Leicestershire County Council’s “concerns about how to find hundreds of millions of pounds needed to pay for new roads and schools to cope with Leicestershire’s population growth.” (‘Cash-strapped Leicestershire County Council says it needs £600m to cope with rapidly growing population’, June 4, 2019) The […]

The following letter was sent to candidates standing in the May 2 Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland council elections, as well as the mayoral candidates in Leicester City. The letter will remain open after the election and can be signed by elected councillors who share our concerns. To election candidate/agent Save Our NHS Leicestershire is asking […]

Around 80 people attended a politically charged Save Our NHS Leicestershire (SONHSL) public meeting on Saturday April 6 to discuss the planned reorganisation of Leicester’s hospitals. Speaking at the meeting was Mark Wightman, the Director of Communications and Strategy for the local NHS Hospital Trust and Dr Sally Ruane, a local health policy academic and […]