Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey will give the keynote speech at his party’s conference
The Conservative Government already has a target for cancer patients to start treatment within 62 days of an urgent referral, but not all do. It is understood this would involve patients reporting complaints to the health ombudsman, starting a process which could ultimately end with the Government facing legal action under the plan.
The party has not yet fully costed its health policy, which is the centrepiece of a pre-manifesto aimed at wooing traditionally Tory voters in places like southern England.In a party conference speech aimed at firing up delegates for a long campaign, Sir Ed will say he had branded successive Tory governments “clowns” who have “crash our economy” and “plunge our NHS into crisis” before adding: “I’m sorry. I used the wrong C-word.