On Wednesday March 11, the World Health Organisation finally declared a global pandemic, after the COVID 19 virus spread into 114 countries and killed more than 4,000 people. After a decade of austerity, the NHS is woefully unprepared to fight this outbreak. There is currently a national staffing shortage of more than 100,000 workers. We […]

University Hospitals of Leicester (UHL) NHS Trust refused to comment on their controversial plans to reorganise local hospitals, which include the closure of Leicester General as an acute hospital, with beds then crammed into the Royal Infirmary and the Glenfield, despite being given two weeks notice by BBC Radio Leicester. The BBC’s Tim Parker had […]

The following report was sent to Save Our NHS Leicestershire by an NHS worker at the Leicester Royal Infirmary. We have not undertaken an independent check on all the issues raised in this report but we believe the source is reliable although for obvious reasons wishes to remain anonymous. “When we moved into the new […]

Future site map of General Hospital – can you spot it? University Hospitals of Leicester (UHL) NHS Trust has been granted £450million from the government to reorganise acute hospital services in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. Save Our NHS Leicestershire welcomes the investment in our hospitals after many years of little funding. We also welcome the […]

First of all, we want to take this opportunity to wish all members, supporters and affiliates a belated Happy New Year and to thank you for your continued support. 2019 was a difficult year politically, but we hope you will continue to fight alongside us in defence of our NHS. In the eighteen months since […]

Save Our NHS Leicestershire hosted a health debate in the marginal constituency of Loughborough on Saturday December 7. This was the only hustings explicitly focusing on the health service in a constituency that could well end up being decisive in determining the national result. In attendance was Labour’s Stuart Brady, Lib Dem Ian Sharpe, and […]

PRESS RELEASE: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. 03.12.2019 A Leicestershire-based campaign group is holding an election debate in Loughborough this Saturday to discuss the future of the NHS. Save Our NHS Leicestershire has invited all the main parliamentary candidates standing in Loughborough to speak at the event ahead of the General Election on December 12. Tom Barker, […]

Between 150 and 200 people packed the area around Leicester’s Clock Tower last Saturday to attend a demonstration called by Save Our NHS Leicestershire demonstration to highlight the crisis currently overwhelming our health service. The protest was due to be addressed by junior doctor Sonia Adesara who appeared in the recent film on the NHS, […]

PRESS RELEASE. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE. 15.11.2019 A public protest will be held by Save Our NHS Leicestershire on Saturday November 16 to highlight the ongoing crisis in the health service and what campaigns describe as “serious inadequacies” in the local NHS trust’s plans to change hospital provision in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. The protest follows […]

University Hospitals of Leicester (UHL) NHS Trust has just received £450million funding from the Department of Health to reorganise acute hospital services in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland. This money will be used to close the General Hospital as an acute hospital and consolidate acute services onto two sites – the Royal Infirmary and the Glenfield. […]