In his speech in Bournemouth, he said that the health service was vital to his young family and described the NHS as one of the greatest achievements of the 20th Century.
He will not give the NHS a blank cheque, but will give the money it needs. He would not embark on endless unpopular shake-ups, as imposed by Gordon Brown.
His passionate words have special resonance here in Shropshire, where we are facing a new round of cuts in beds and services because of Brown's meddling and the debts triggered by financial mismanagement.
Labour may have poured extra cash into the NHS but they have failed to deliver where it matters - in local communities where hospitals and services are now threatened. Too much of the new money has gone to waste.
It is a mark of changing times that only the Conservatives have a plan to put patients first and to put the NHS back on its feet. No wonder that opinion polls rate David Cameron ahead of Brown on the NHS. We will give local communities, not remote faceless officials, the right to work with doctors and nurses to decide the best way to care for the sick.
Next Saturday I am joining a day of action to protest about planned closures in Ludlow. People power has already scuppered Brown's craziest schemes. Together we can halt the next wave and prepare for a government committed to sensible and sensitive management of the service.
