I WAS delighted to see Conservatives will lead an Opposition Day debate on health spending.

Labour has made promise after promise on the health service - and broken them all.

They are beginning to be rumbled and have no idea what to do about it. The result is blind panic. Labour's record is one of broken promises on the NHS.

The Chancellor has boxed the Government in ruling out the reform of the health service that is needed to make it a better service.

By failing to consider real reform of the system, Labour is going to break its promises on health again.

This Government is unwilling to engage in a genuine debate on the NHS and provision of healthcare and is now in complete confusion over its health policy.

Unlike Labour, which has failed to put patients first and is blinded by dogma in its approach to the NHS, our overriding objective is to improve the quality of health care in Britain.

Conservatives are not so arrogant as to believe that we can achieve better health care for the British people without learning from those countries that already have achieved better health care for their people.

We are not so dogmatic as to have arrived out our opinions before embarking on our review. And we are not so blinkered as to set the terms of reference accordingly, as the Chancellor did, so as to make the conclusions inevitable.

STEPHEN CLEE,

County councillor.