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 […]

PRESS RELEASE, 02.04.2019. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Leicester NHS campaigners host public meeting to examine plans to reorganise Leicester’s hospitals Campaigning group Save Our NHS Leicestershire (SONHSL) is holding a public meeting this Saturday to discuss University Hospitals of Leicester (UHL) NHS Trust’s controversial plans to close the General as an acute hospital, as well as […]

In the short time since we formed, the Save Our NHS Leicestershire campaign has made itself felt. We lobbied the Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland Joint Health Overview Scrutiny Committee over local NHS plans to downgrade Leicester General Hospital by removing intensive care beds without any consultation of the public. This resulted in the committee formally […]

  University Hospitals of Leicester (UHL) is planning to reorganise acute hospital services in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland at a cost of around £370m. The plans involve consolidating services away from Leicester General onto two sites – the Royal Infirmary and the Glenfield – and include a new maternity hospital at the LRI and a […]

University Hospitals of Leicester (UHL) is planning to reorganise acute hospital services in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland via a project for which it is seeking capital investment from the department of Health of around £370m. The plans involve consolidating services away from Leicester General onto two sites – the Royal Infirmary and the Glenfield – […]

Save Our NHS Leicestershire’s petition calling for a consultation on the planned removal of intensive care from the Leicester General closed on Friday, with nearly 2,000 signatures (804 paper and 1132 online). The closure of the petition coincides with the end of University Hospitals of Leicester’s (UHL) public engagement exercise – a series of meetings […]

A Leicester hospital spokesman last week asked campaigners to campaign for his hospital’s investment plans. But campaigners from Save Our NHS Leicestershire have said they are unable to support UHL’s plans to change hospital services unless the plans change. Mark Wightman, Director of Communications and Strategy for University Hospitals of Leicester was speaking at an […]

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 […]