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Hunt to address NHS conference

Jeremy Hunt will speak at the NHS Confederation conference in Liverpool today - where on Wednesday delegates heard their boss call for fewer hospital beds and more GP surgeries as a way of dealing with the rise in demand for emergency services.

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Cameron: Labour NHS spending plans 'irresponsible'

Labour has accused of being "irresponsible" by saying it would not spend more on the NHS, the Prime Minister has claimed:

"Let me tell you what would happen if we followed Labour's spending plans on the NHS.

"New figures out today - there would be 43,000 fewer nurses and 11,000 fewer doctors. We decided because we valued the NHS to spend more. You said it was irresponsible. You are wrong."

David Cameron speaking during Prime Minister's Questions. Credit: PA Wire

Mr Cameron also admitted that waiting times at accident and emergency departments had increased at the beginning of the year, and said the Government was working on this issue.

"Now we must work hard to get those waiting times down and keep those waiting times down but the way we won't do it is by following Labour's policy and cutting the NHS."

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