The Tories will protect the NHS budget, David Cameron will announce in his speech to his party conference today. Extracts of the Prime Minister’s speech, which he will deliver in Birmingham later today, include a promise to ‘protect the NHS budget and continue to invest more’.
Cameron will repeat George Osborne’s argument that ‘you can only have a strong NHS if you have a strong economy’, and will also mention his own personal commitment to the health service, saying:
‘From the country that unravelled DNA, we are now mapping it for each individual. Cracking this code could mean curing rare genetic diseases and saving lives. Our NHS is leading the world on this incredible technology.
‘I understand very personally the difference it could make. When you have a child who’s so ill and the doctors can’t work out what he’s got or why – you’d give anything to know.’
Cameron’s reference to his own personal experience of and commitment to the health service will mean that Labour has to tread carefully when it responds to his speech.
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