Optical employers body FODO will host the opposition's outspoken MP at its annual dinner, to be held this year at Lords Cricket Ground, London.
The event, scheduled for November 4, will see the Long Room in the Grandstand being used for the dinner, while beforehand the reception will be held at the ground's MCC Museum.
Dr Fox is expected to use the event to outline Conservative plans, and 'how they would involve and empower the contractor professions'.
Speaking to FODO's Opticians in Business update (June 2003) Dr Fox said if elected the Conservatives would 'develop new capacity by encouraging more spending on health on top of that already spent in the NHS'.
'Increasing the volume of treatment carried out can be achieved only by either increasing the output of existing suppliers or introducing new suppliers,' he said. 'Under Labour, despite vast increases in expenditure on the NHS, the total output of the system has barely increased.'
The MP claimed the Government's 'further huge increases' would not be matched by increased improvements in the Health Service 'since Labour refuse to introduce the radical reforms needed to encourage diversity and innovation'.
Dr Fox said that it would be necessary to persuade new, 'non-NHS suppliers of healthcare to invest' to improve the service.
Key proposals include:
Create an environment in which the private and voluntary sectors believe it is worth their while to invest, in order to generate extra capacity.
Allow patients the option of moving between any NHS provider based on a national tariff system which would define set costs for specific procedures.
Allow patients to take some or all of the NHS tariff with them if they decide to have treatment outside the NHS.
Funding the NHS on 'the basis of real activity not block contracts'.
Dr Liam Fox, shadow health secretary, will tell a gathering of optical representatives the Conservatives' vision of the health service later this year.