FUNDING CARE FOR THE ELDERLY IGNORED IN QUEEN'S SPEECH - LAMB

12.55.30pm UTC (GMT +0000) Tue 6th Nov 2007

Commenting on the health bills in the Queen's Speech today, Liberal Democrat Shadow Health Secretary, Norman Lamb MP said: "The Queen's Speech gives no sign of Brown's vision of the NHS."

"It says nothing about the pressing priority of funding care for the elderly and nothing about the poor value for money obtained for the large sums invested in recent years. These are the issues which people care deeply about."

"We can only assume that Brown will continue his obsession with inflexible central control and fail to provide real accountability to the people the NHS is meant to serve."