"Patients in England will be guaranteed NHS treatment within 18 weeks, with the legal right to private care paid for by the state if that deadline is missed.The government has already announced plans to give "entitlements" to care within a certain time, but it is now set to enshrine those rights in law.
BBC political correspondent Iain Watson said Labour wanted to show it was the party to be trusted on healthcare.
But the Tories say it is an attempt to use the NHS as a political football."
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