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Health Care in London

I will give way to the hon. Gentleman in a moment. The NHS changes are difficult, and they do raise local concerns. If there is a real alternative to what we are doing—if the hon. Member for South Cambridgeshire had come up with anything other than saying, "Let the GPs decide from their funding what they want to keep and what they do not"—then I missed it. He did not come forward with any such alternative: it is not in his motion and it was not in his speech. Let us have a look at the motion. There is a vague call for something called a""public health strategy geared towards the reduction of health inequalities"." Yes, good—got that. Indeed, Darzi attempts to do just that, but if the hon. Gentleman does not accept the Darzi process, what will he put in its place? A policy of no-change conservatism is not a serious policy. It does not deal with the inequalities that the hon. Gentleman set out. People are now dying and getting poor health treatment because Governments in the past have found the problem too difficult. We are now making some of the changes that are needed. In the face of that, the Conservatives abdicate responsibility, advocate nothing to replace the Darzi process and play to public fears. That is what is happening. If they do that in government, the inequalities that the hon. Gentleman has identified will remain, because he has no approach to deal with them. All he wants to do is play Pontius Pilate, washing his hands of the problem and saying, "Well, we wanted something done—there were real inequalities—but it was up to the GPs locally."