Speaking at the Conservative Spring Forum in Brighton, Shadow Health Secretary Andrew Lansley set out his vision for the NHS, which he said was our number one priority.
"I have a vision of how our NHS can be. Patients for whom no decision is made about them, without them. Doctors and nurses who know they can deliver the care their patients need and are trusted as professionals. Quality, rigorously measured, as the thread which ties together services. Services designed around patients, not processes. A recognition that every pound spent in pointless bureaucracy is a pound lost to patient care.
An NHS which sees research and innovation as central to being the best healthcare. A service and a government which not only knows that prevention is better than cure, but is organised to achieve it. An NHS which provides the care patients need, when they need it, where they need it.
And a service which not only is constantly improving but is striving - and succeeding - to deliver healthcare as good as anywhere in the world. An NHS which is true to its principles of equity. Which achieves efficiency, and which most of all, delivers excellence. An NHS of which we can all be proud."
Read Andrew's full speech here
Read our Draft Manifesto on healthcare