Mr Burnham criticises 15-minute care visits for the elderly and the "scandal" of poor treatment in care homes - recalling his grandmother's own experience. The Conservatives cannot bring about the change that is needed, he claims, and accuses them of prioritising profits over patients. "The market is not the answer to 21st century health and social care", Mr Burnham insists and restates Labour's pledge to repeal the Health and Social Care Act, which enacted the government's health reforms.

In a direct message to voters the shadow health secretary says: "Labour is with you, your worries are ours, we know things can be better than they are." He says Labour will be bold and "complete Nye Bevan's vision, and bring social care in to the NHS", prompting applause.

Andy Burnham says Labour has a "rescue plan" to secure the NHS based on "people before profits". People will be offered a "real choice" over the future of the NHS, he says, and predicts the general election next May will be the Conservatives' "day of reckoning". Criticising the government's record on health, he accuses David Cameron of breaking his pledge for no top-down reorganisations of the NHS: "It was a bare-faced lie."

@Iain_33 tweets:, external Andy Burnham has to follow Harry Smith and Baby Jacob

Time for a speech from Labour's shadow health secretary Andy Burnham now. He opens by paying tribute to Harry Smith, telling him it was "truly a privilege to be in your company today".

The next generation of the Labour Party? Catherine Atkinson, Labour's parliamentary candidate for Erewash, brings her son, Jacob, on stage as she makes a speech on the NHS.

Mr Smith goes on to criticise the current government's austerity measures and urges Labour to be vigilant and demand that the health service "will always remain an institution for the people and by the people". "Never, ever let the NHS free from our grasp because if we do your future will be my past", he counsels. His speech - which brought many in the room to tears - elicits a standing ovation from a moved crowd.

@sarahjanehan tweets:, external Harry Smith's epic speech a reminder of why we need Older and Wiser voices in British politics #Lab14 #remembrancers @ljgrainge tweets:, external Just witnessed the speech of #Lab14 not Ed, but 92 yr old Harry Smith. Truly inspirational, almost poetic but extremely moving. Still tears

"Sadly rampant poverty and no healthcare were the norm for the Britain for my youth. That injustice galvanised my generation to become after the Second World War the tide that raised all boats," Harry Smith, 91, says, adding that he voted for the first time in 1945, for the Labour Party - which would go on to create the NHS.

"My memories stretch back almost 100 years and if I close my eyes I can smell the poverty that oozes from the dusky tenement streets of my boyhood," Harry Smith says. "No-one in our community was safe from poor health," he adds, recalling how his elder sister died of TB aged 10 and received a pauper's funeral because the family was unable to afford to pay for one themselves.

@GillTroughton tweets:, external In tears hearing Harry Smith describing poor health & fear for the poor pre-NHS. Couldn't even afford to bury his sister. #Lab2014

tweets:, external Harry Smith's contribution to #Lab14 is one of the most incredible things I've ever seen or heard.

tweets:, external Use of imagery, inversion, triclons, anecdotes, pathos, calls to arms: Harry Smith's address was a speech-writers' masterclass #lab14

tweets:, external Huge, spontaneous round of applause for Harry Smith, an elderly man who spoke to #lab14 about the NHS

tweets:, external 91 year-old Harry Smith shows Ed Miliband how to do it - rousing speech (from autocue) that gets delegates on their feet

The healthcare debate has just been addressed by - Harry Smith - born in 1923, making him 91 years old. In a moving speech - which brings tears to some people's eyes - he takes the room through his childhood background in poverty. He says it was a "bleak time" in the country when public healthcare didn't exist and hospitals and medicines were for "the privileged few".

tweets:, external Harry Smith gets huge applause finishing: 'Mr Cameron get your mitts of my NHS' - bigger than anything Miliband got during his speech #Lab14

tweets:, external Labour's @ChukaUmunna on that missing D-word: "We have talked about the deficit ad infinitum" #Lab14