Labour's Health Campaign

• Andy Burnham and Douglas Alexander today launch voteNHS.com to outline Labour's health campaign.

• Labour pledges a new NHS guarantee of cancer diagnosis within one week of being referred by your GP. The Tories would scrap your patient guarantees.

• The "Target Cancer" campaign aims to save up to 10,000 lives by backing a pledge to create a new NHS guarantee of cancer diagnosis within one week of GP referral, allowing patients to be tested and told their results in just seven days.

• Launching the campaign, Andy Burnham Labour's Health Secretary said:
  
  "Some things are too important to be left to chance, and cancer is one of them. It's no exaggeration to say that with this disease, every day counts and cancer diagnosis should not be left to a local lottery.
  
  "That's why I am proud to say that with Labour, every NHS patient will have guaranteed access to diagnostic tests for cancer and, crucially, their results within just one week of seeing their doctor. If we do this, we know up to 10,000 lives a year could be saved.
  
  "I am challenging Andrew Lansley and the Tories to drop their dogmatic opposition to our two-week cancer pledge, and admit that the quicker we can diagnose cancer, and ensure the same cancer guarantees for all NHS patients, the quicker we can treat it and the more lives we can save.
  
  "And today I'm calling on everyone who agrees with me on this to sign up to my Target Cancer campaign at voteNHS.com."

• The Tories would scrap Labour's patient guarantees, including the right to cancer diagnosis within one week and to see a specialist in two weeks. They would also scrap our agreement with doctors, so that under the Tories, GPs' surgeries would be allowed to cut their opening hours.