{"id":246493,"date":"2025-07-07T23:32:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T23:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/246493\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T23:32:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T23:32:12","slug":"labour-mp-luke-murphy-releases-report-on-basingstoke-nhs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/246493\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour MP Luke Murphy releases report on Basingstoke NHS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basingstokegazette.co.uk\/topics\/luke-murphy-mp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Luke Murphy<\/a>, who has been in the position for a year, has published a detailed report titled Re-building Our Local <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basingstokegazette.co.uk\/news\/health\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Health<\/a> Service.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It outlines the &#8220;dire state&#8221; of the NHS locally, the actions being taken, and his vision for the future.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The report came after a year of research and engagement with NHS staff, patients, and residents.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Mr Murphy said the research showed &#8220;the challenges facing healthcare in Basingstoke&#8221;.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>Health secretary Wes Streeting with Basingstoke MP Luke Murphy. (Image: Luke Murphy MP) The report details that A&amp;E performance significantly dipped under the previous <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basingstokegazette.co.uk\/topics\/conservative-party\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Conservative<\/a> government, with 63.4 per cent of patients seen within four hours by July 2024, compared to 93.8 per cent a decade prior.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He said that since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basingstokegazette.co.uk\/topics\/labour-party\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Labour<\/a> took office, performance has started to improve, with nearly 1,700 more patients being seen on time in March 2025.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  According to the report, average ambulance response times for severe emergencies increased from under 20 minutes in 2017 to almost 32 minutes by March 2024.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Labour reduced this to just over 21 minutes, beating national and regional averages.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Mr Murphy added that Labour inherited a backlog of more than 52,000 patients at Hampshire hospitals, with waiting times exceeding NHS targets. This was reduced to 50,897 by May 2025.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Access to GPs remains a serious concern, with only 56 per cent of patients finding it easy to contact their GP practice.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Almost two-thirds of adults and nearly half of the children in Hampshire went without an NHS dental appointment last year.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Mr Murphy said: &#8220;The NHS runs through the story of my life \u2014 my own family has relied on its care more times than I can count.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Yet too many people in Basingstoke had been left waiting, worrying, and feeling let down after years of neglect by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basingstokegazette.co.uk\/topics\/conservative-party\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Conservative<\/a> governments.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;I\u2019m determined that we won\u2019t hide from the problems; we\u2019ll confront them.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;My report sets out the facts, lifts the voices of our town, and makes the case for the urgent action we need.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The report&#8217;s publication aligns with the rollout of Labour\u2019s national 10-Year <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basingstokegazette.co.uk\/news\/health\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Health<\/a> Plan, a blueprint for NHS renewal.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  This aims to bring the NHS closer to home and move away from the status quo, where hospital visits are the default.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basingstokegazette.co.uk\/topics\/hampshire-hospitals-nhs-foundation-trust\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Hampshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust<\/a> has been asked for a comment.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luke Murphy, who has been in the position for a year, has published a detailed report titled Re-building&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4316],"tags":[105,4348,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-246493","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114814565906695251","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}