{"id":417923,"date":"2026-02-10T11:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T11:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/417923\/"},"modified":"2026-02-10T11:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T11:44:09","slug":"nhs-blocked-from-accessing-1-2m-in-basingstoke-for-gps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/417923\/","title":{"rendered":"NHS blocked from accessing \u00a31.2m in Basingstoke for GPs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  In a letter to Cllr Paul Harvey, Leader of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basingstokegazette.co.uk\/topics\/basingstoke-and-deane-borough-council\/?ref=au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council<\/a> (BDBC), Mr Murphy called on BDBC to\u00a0prioritise local GPs when\u00a0allocating\u00a0developer contributions.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It comes after research by his office discovered there was no functional route\u00a0through\u00a0Basingstoke\u2019s planning system\u00a0for the Integrated Care Board (ICB)\u00a0to successfully bid for\u00a0developer funding\u00a0for local\u00a0primary care infrastructure\u00a0for nearly seven years. During this, housing development continued at scale while GP capacity struggled to keep up.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It was\u00a0uncovered that, from at least 2018 onwards, BDBC rejected NHS requests for funds totalling\u00a0at least\u00a0\u00a31.2m\u00a0via S106 on new housing developments.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Labour MP Luke Murphy has urged the council to prioritise GPs (Image: Office of Luke Murphy MP)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Mr Murphy said: &#8220;Thanks to the\u00a0previous\u00a0Tory council\u2019s lack of foresight, for almost seven years the NHS has been blocked from accessing funding to expand GP services using money developers are legally required to pay the council for local infrastructure.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cI\u2019m\u00a0calling on the council to put right this historic wrong and ensure that\u00a0Basingstoke council prioritises\u00a0our local GPs\u00a0and primary care infrastructure\u00a0when\u00a0allocating\u00a0developer contributions.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cThat means approving the current bid\u00a0put\u00a0forward by\u00a0the\u00a0ICB\u00a0for\u00a0desperately needed\u00a0funds\u00a0for the expansion\u00a0required\u00a0at Chineham Medical Practice.\u00a0There\u00a0must also be\u00a0sufficient capital\u00a0allocated\u00a0in\u00a0future budgets to support other healthcare facilities, including a long-overdue health\u00a0centre\u00a0in\u00a0Winklebury.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Mr Murphy has called on the council to approve\u00a0the proposal\u00a0submitted\u00a0by the\u00a0ICB\u00a0to\u00a0allocate\u00a0\u00a31,391,396 of funds collected from housing developers\u00a0in\u00a0an upcoming meeting of the council\u2019s cabinet and full council.\u00a0This\u00a0funding would allow Chineham Medical Practice,\u00a0which faces some of the most acute capacity issues with its premises,\u00a0to\u00a0expand.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He urged for\u00a0the full \u00a31,391,396 requested by the NHS and to work with him and local health leaders to ensure future housing growth is properly supported by adequate GP infrastructure.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  He also\u00a0sought\u00a0reassurance\u00a0from\u00a0the council\u00a0that it\u00a0is confident that there will be sufficient funds to\u00a0support\u00a0further health infrastructure requests arising from continued housing development\u00a0across the town.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Mr Murphy has\u00a0also\u00a0written to the minister for planning, Matthew Pennycook MP, and the minister for social care, Stephen Kinnock MP,\u00a0following\u00a0a request\u00a0to explore how national policy can better align housing delivery with health infrastructure needs.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The borough council has been asked for a comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a letter to Cllr Paul Harvey, Leader of Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council (BDBC), Mr Murphy called&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[102,2960,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-417923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}