Jeremy Hunt's speech concludes today's business in the conference hall. Stay with us as we bring you further reaction to today's speeches.

The health secretary says the government publishes "more information about NHS performance than any other healthcare system in the world". He denies that this is "naming and shaming" and says he wants the NHS to be "a world leader in using transparency to drive up clinical standards; a world leader in improving hospital safety".

Jeremy Hunt finishes with a return to a recurring theme of today's speeches.

"We make it too difficult for doctors and nurses to speak out about poor care," Jeremy Hunt says. He adds that "too many worry that if they own up to making a mistake or blow the whistle on poor care they will be fired - as they sometimes are".

Jeremy Hunt claims there are "around 200 deaths in our hospitals that could have been avoided every week". He says this is "no better or worse than other countries" but likens it to "a plane crash every week because of mistakes that shouldn't have been made."

"What Conservatives know is that a strong NHS needs a strong economy," the health secretary says. He claims that "the truly progressive party is the one that fights for higher standards and tackles problems head on". And he calls on NHS staff to "stand beside us" on seven-day NHS services.

Dominic Casciani
Home Affairs Correspondent

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"Last year the independent Commonwealth Fund said that under the coalition [government] our NHS had become the best healthcare system in the world," Jeremy Hunt says.

The health secretary talks of the "founding vision of the NHS" and recalls NHS founder, Labour minister Nye Bevan who, he adds, "would probably turn in his grave if he knew he was being quoted at a Conservative conference".

"However fraught your life, however frail your voice our society has not forgotten you because we have an NHS," Jeremy Hunt says and claims that principle for "One Nation" Conservatism.

"When I arrive in the office there's a pink folder waiting for me on my desk," Jeremy Hunt says as he sets out how his day usually starts. "It contains a letter from a member of the public about something that's gone wrong in the NHS."

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt starts his conference speech with a jab at Labour and those protesting at the Conservative conference.

Presenter and former BBC newsreader Angela Rippon now addresses conference as "an ambassador from the Alzheimer's Society".

Education Secretary Nicky Morgan finishes with a call to make her brief central to her party's aims.

Nicky Morgan says the government wants to "shine a spotlight on those schools which have been coasting". Many of those schools are "in our leafy suburbs", she adds.

Andy Burnham, Labour's shadow home secretary, has given his reaction to Theresa May's conference speech. He says it was designed to further her party leadership ambitions.

Nicky Morgan says there is a "fundamental difference" between the Conservatives and Labour. The opposition "will never understand why a parent wouldn't just settle" for a local school or why a headmaster might want more autonomy. The education secretary accuses Labour of "the soft bigotry of low expectations" and claims the party "just doesn't get aspiration".

Nicky Morgan highlights the government's offer to working parents in England of "30 hours of free, high quality childcare". She announces that parents will have the right to expect their child's school to "provide childcare for a full working day".