The conservative party are promising to cut the cost of private healthcare insurance, in an attempt to encourage more people to take it up. This move is one of many towards health proposals, outlined by Tory health spokesperson Liam Fox. The move pledges to:

1)Restrict government ‘interference’  in NHS management.

2) A system to assign patients individual waiting lines.

3) Matching Labour spending on the NHS.

Dr. Fox set out plans for a ‘patients guarantee’, which will promise them better treatment on the NHS and cheaper, more flexible private schemes. Dr. Fox said that private health insurance would be made better and more attractive through a dramatic reduction in cost.

The conservatives believe that by boosting business schemes used by 3.7million people in the UK would be the best way of increasing the total number of people using medical insurance, therefore easing the pressure off the NHS.

Dr.Fox stated that patients should not have to put up with whatever standard of treatment is given out to them like: “Some Dickensian paupers getting their gruel.” However, by achieving this goal, the Tories plan to subsidise tax breaks for the private sector by taking money from the NHS.

The new scheme is designed to help patients get a free referral to another health authority or private sector if they have had to wait beyond their allotted time for treatment.