Tory pledge to improve healthcare
Updated on 06 July 2009
Tory leader David Cameron has said a Conservative government would improve the National Institute for Health and Clinical excellence (NICE).
In a speech in London to the Reform think-tank, Mr Cameron said the Tories would improve public health by introducing a new payment system to drugs companies.
Mr Cameron's comments came during a speech in which he claimed a Tory government would cut the number of Quangos.
He said: "To enable NICE to recommend good drugs that it currently rejects, we will introduce payment-by-results for drug companies.
"Decisions should be based on what actually gets people better and we should pay the drugs companies according to their value to patients.
"NICE should be involved in this process, working with Government and drug companies not just to set fair prices for new medicines but also new pricing structures."
The Tory leader said there could be more than 1,000 quangos operating in Britain today.
He said: "This growth in the number of quangos, and in the scope of their influence, raises important questions for our democracy and politics.
"Too many state actions, services and decisions are carried out by people who cannot be voted out by the public, by organisations that feel no pressure to answer for what happens - in a way that is completely unaccountable."
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