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New figures, published today, reveal the staggering rise in NHS appointments, operations and tests at University Hospital Southampton NHS Trust (formally known as Southampton General Hospital) and around the country over the last year.
There were more than 1,229,000 appointments, operations and tests in the year to June 2025 – up almost 45,000 on the year to July 2024. Across the country there were 5.2m more – dramatically exceeding Labour’s manifesto pledge to deliver an extra 2m.
The figures come following a year in which Labour has given the NHS a record £29 billion funding boost, including up to £10 billion on technology and digital transformation. We are training and recruiting thousands more GPs, and through our 10 Year Health Plan, Labour has laid the foundations for the future of the NHS, to shift it from analogue to digital, from hospital to community and from sickness to prevention.
Responding to the new figures, Southampton Labour’s Governor at the Trust, Cllr Pam Kenny, said,“Labour promised to get our NHS back on its feet and that is exactly what we are doing. Millions more appointments, thousands of extra GPs, additional funding and a serious 10 year reform plan to make our health service fit for the future – that is what we were elected to deliver for families in Southampton, and that’s what we will deliver.The Tories left our NHS in crisis, and Nigel Farage has talked about ending an NHS that is free at the point of delivery. Only Labour can save the NHS here in Southampton. We’ve done it before, and we are doing it again.”
Health and Social Care Secretary Wes Streeting said:“One year ago, I made a promise that we would deliver 2 million extra appointments in our first year – not only did we do this in just 5 months, but we have obliterated that target, carrying out over 5 million.That is testament to the relentless efforts of NHS staff across the country, alongside key reforms to get waiting times down for patients. Our 10 Year Health Plan will go even further, driving care out of our busy hospitals and into local communities as we deliver the radical transformation required to fix our broken health service.Earlier this week, I set out our vision for a more transparent NHS by publishing new league tables. Today we are continuing on that path with newly published cancer diagnosis data. It is only by shining a light on unacceptable disparities that we can tackle the postcode lottery of care. Our National Cancer Plan will set out how we will put the NHS back at the forefront of global cancer care.”