The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has rated medical care, including older people’s care, at the Glenfield Hospital as Good overall, following an unannounced inspection in March 2026. The service has improved from its previous rating of Requires Improvement, with the key domains of Safe, Caring, Effective and Responsive rated Good, and the service receiving an Outstanding rating for Well-led. The inspection took place on 2 and 3 March 2026 and included visits to seven wards

Drivers visiting Leicestershire hospitals are being warned they could be hit with a fine unless they follow a new parking conditions being introduced from next week. Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust is introducing a new car parking system at some of our sites from Tuesday 1 September. For anyone attending an appointment, visiting a patient, or accessing one of our services, you will still be able to park free of charge. However, you will face the possibility of fines if

For 20 years, the Hospital Hopper has been helping patients, visitors and colleagues hop between Leicester’s hospitals. Thousands of journeys later, the much-loved service is still going strong. To mark the anniversary of this important bus service, which provides a reliable link between all three hospital sites, UHL colleagues were joined by BBC Radio Leicester this week. Breakfast show host, Ady Dayman, who is the voice of the onboard announcements, chatted to commuters on

A new gamma camera has been installed at the Glenfield Hospital, as part of an ongoing project to improve nuclear medicine services at UHL. The new GE HealthCare Aurora SPECT/CT camera will help doctors to assess the function of their patients’ organs, combining this with a structural scan. It will increase the capacity of UHL’s nuclear medicine service, which currently sees around 5,000 patients annually, adding up to 1,000 more appointments per year. Nuclear medicine is one

A special event has been held at the Glenfield Hospital to thank a volunteer who has supported UHL’s cardiac rehabilitation (rehab) classes for 20 years. Roger Latham has been a consistent presence at classes held at the National Centre for Sports and Exercise Medicine in Loughborough and at the Glenfield Hospital since taking part in a rehab programme himself, in 2006. The cardiac rehab service at UHL supports patients in their recovery from a heart attack, heart surgery or