Ben Bradshaw MP, Labour's Health Minister, has welcomed healthcare experts and professionals' support for Lord Ara Darzi's NHS Next Stage Review:

"Labour has laid out an ambitious plan for a fairer, more personal NHS, and it is winning the approval it deserves. Healthcare experts and professionals agree this is a real opportunity to improve care and performance.

"Our proposals are a vital opportunity to build on Labour's achievement since 1997 in improving hospitals, extending GP access, and cutting waiting times. Under the Tories, waiting lists went up by 400,000; Labour's record investment and tough targets have cut waiting lists by 614,000.

"David Cameron has offered a lot of warm words about the NHS turning 60, but won't come clean on the real risk to patient care that his policies would introduce.

"When will David Cameron visit an NHS hospital and admit that he would scrap tough targets for MRSA and C. diff and the guarantee that cancer patients are seen within two weeks?

"When will David Cameron come clean to patients that his plans for hospital borrowing could mean hospitals going bust if they got into financial difficulty?

"People will see through David Cameron's shallow salesmanship on the NHS when they know that he would take away guarantees about how they are treated and would even allow their local hospital to go broke."