Save Our NHS Leicestershire

Save Our NHS Leicestershire emerged out of the successful campaign to Save Glenfield ❤ Centre. We aim to coordinate NHS campaigns in Leicestershire & Rutland.

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The Cost of NHS Privatisation
NHS staffing and training are badly affected:
Private surgery relies on NHS surgeons, anaesthetists, nurses and technicians, reducing their NHS availability!

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The Cost of NHS privatisation -
Health Inequality widen:
For NHS funded hip and knee replacements between 2003-19, private provision rose from almost 0% to 30.5%, but waiting times for the poorest 20% deteriorated compared to the richest 20%.

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The Cost of Privatisation -
Health Inequalities Widens:
For NHS-funded hip and knee replacements between 2003-2019, private provision rose from almost 0% to 30.5%, but waiting times for poorest 20% deteriorated compared to the richest 20%.

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The cost of NHS privatisation.
Health inequality widens:
Companies cherry-pick less risky, high volume, easier activities. The NHS is left with the more complex, higher-risk care, with fewer staff and less funding.

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The cost of NHS privatisation - Patient safety is compromised:
Evidence shows that, overall and over time, privatisation of clinical services risks a reduction in quality of care and is associated with rising patient morbidity and mortality.

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20 March 2026

SAD DAY FOR MOTHERS

Save our NHS Leicestershire deplores the decision of the Integrated Care Board (ICB) to close St Mary's NHS midwife led birth centre in Melton Mowbray.

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The cost of NHS privatisation.

PATIENT SAFETY IS COMPROMISED:
Private services are less well regulated and have fewer reporting requirements than NHS facilities.

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A questionnaire has been produced by Braunstone Town Labour Party (see link below). The changes have been controversial and there has been campaigning to save the surgery at Braunstone Crossroads.

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The cost of NHS privatisation.
Patient Safety is compromised:
Private hospitals are less well staffed and equipped, and usually without intensive care. As a result 6,600 patients have to be rescued by NHS critical care every year, costing the NHS an estimated £80 million.

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Why dentistry must be brought back into the NHS:
* Almost one third (32%) of adults in the East Midlands have tooth decay;
* Access is difficult - there are 'dental deserts' where access to NHS provision barely exists for new patients.

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The cost of NHS privatisation - services cost more:
Social Insurance models, such as in France and Germany (which are well-funded) are more expensive than the NHS. Other insurance models distort the priority from patient care to profit-making.