NHS at 60 survey goes live

I have today added a survey seeking your views on the local NHS as it turns 60.

You can take the survey here.

I want to know what your top healthcare priorities are, your experience of the local health service and your views on some of the debates currently raging in this critical policy area.

Sixty years ago this month, Labour Health Secretary Aneurin Bevan launched the National Health Service. I am not alone in believing it to be Labour's single greatest achievement ever.

And since 1997, Putney has seen the fruits of Labour investment in our NHS:

* Rebuilding Queen Mary's Hospital after the last Conservative Government axed its A&E Department in 1997

* Providing the funds to get Putney Hospital back into use as a healthcare provider - and with legal problems now on their way to being resolved work will hopefully start soon

* A new NHS clinic serving Southfields and West Hill

* Many, many more NHS doctors, nurses, consultants, midwives and dentists

* Waiting times for operations slashed

* More convenient GP surgery opening times

...to list just a few. The NHS will always be a huge challenge for government as it struggles to respond to changing health issues and patient needs; new, better treatments; the breadth of service it should provide and the types of facilities best suited to provide those treatments. But the NHS motto: healthcare for all regardless of income, free at the point of use is a beacon for the world and we should all remain very, very proud of our National Health Service