The Conservative Party has pledged to scrap Labour targets for the NHS and advertise which hospitals are the most efficient.

Private health insurance policy holders and those that choose the NHS will be keen to learn that patients will be given a greater share of power to control their own care. The information to provide this power could also come from patients.

The new plans launched this week by Conservative Leader David Cameron has already received praise from health insurance company BUPA who are of the opinion that patient-report outcome measurements should be collected and reported.

In a statement Mr Cameron said: "In place of Labour's self-defeating top-down targets, we will harness the power of information and publish the details of healthcare outcomes."

However, the Government will also be unveiling a new National Health Service constitution next week which will state that patients will be given a guarantee of the minimum standard of care that they can expect.

The new document will set out a code of rights and responsibilities for patient expectations for the health service. The plan is to make a framework whereby the service will be accountable at a national and local level.

Ministers will present the code, and reiterate the founding principles of the health service. The document is thought to set basic minimum standards for care. More than six million UK consumers choose private health insurance as a way of avoiding the perceived down-sides of NHS care.