Around 80 people attended a politically charged Save Our NHS Leicestershire (SONHSL) public meeting last Saturday to discuss the planned reorganisation of Leicester’s hospitals. Speaking at the meeting was Sally Ruane, a local health policy academic and NHS campaigner, and Mark Wightman, the Director of Communications and Strategy for the local NHS Trust. But the […]
Our NHS is in crisis. Unless there is a major change, there’s no end in sight for the serious shortage of GPs. A new report by The Kings Fund, Nuffield Trust and Health Foundation think tanks finds that we need at least 3,000 more GPs by 2024 just to keep up with population growth. But […]
The crisis in social care continues to worsen, as local authorities are being warned that they should be preparing to arrange alternative provision for 13,500 elderly and disabled people by the end of the month. The reason for this alarming advice from the Quality Care Commission is that Allied Healthcare – a major private provider […]
Around 90 people gathered for a public meeting on Saturday called by Save Our NHS Leicestershire (SONHSL) to discuss controversial local plans to remove intensive care beds from Leicester General Hospital without a consultation. Campaigners believe that the removal of the beds will be the first step toward downgrading the General Hospital as an acute […]
“If we fight, we can win!” is the title of our just-published full-colour pamphlet (July 2018), which provides detailed analyses of two successful NHS campaigns. Covering 30 pages, you can read about how the Glenfield Heart Unit was saved and how a neurological ward at Mansfield Community Hospital was also recently saved from Tory cuts. […]
Surprise, surprise. Theresa May’s so-called birthday pre-sent to the NHS – an extra £20 billion a year by 2023 – isn’t quite the generous gesture that it seems. In fact, it’s hopelessly inadequate. So much so, that hot on the heels of this promise comes the announcement that 17 procedures currently available on the NHS […]
The collapse of the building giant Carillion may have caused chaos, but it hasn’t been bad for everyone involved. It transpires that some are set to benefit from the company’s liquidation. Accountancy firms and lawyers will be making a killing, raking in some £70 million in fees. And who’s footing the bill for the disaster? […]
Reporting from across the pond, the liberal New York Times published a lengthy article on 28 May on the horrors the Tories have inflicted on working and middle class people in Britain. “After eight years of budget cutting,” it begins, “Britain is looking less like the rest of Europe and more like the United States, […]
Speaking at today’s May Day Rally in Leicester, Tom Barker finished his speech by saying: “Building upon the success of the Glenfield campaign, we have now set up a second campaign called Save Our NHS Leicestershire. We call upon the trade union movement in Leicestershire and Rutland to join our campaign and help roll back […]
Yesterday, the Save Our NHS Leicestershire (SONHSL) campaign launched in a standing-room-only Leicester Secular Hall, with the meeting brimming with energy to fight the Tories’ brutal NHS cuts. SONHSL will seek to build on the incredible success of the campaign to stop the closure of Glenfield Children’s Heart Unit, which mobilised thousands of people in […]
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