Julia Manning & Matt James: How to slim down the Fat Man of Europe

The Coalition’s Responsibility Deal needs to be transformed into a legislative framework which is phased in over the next five to ten years.

NHS reform. The problem wasn’t the plan. It was the bill.

The story of the fight over Andrew Lansley’s measure – in which this site had a hand.

WATCH: Hunt – If we accepted the NHS pay recommendations four thousand nursing jobs would go next year

“The system of increments is incredibly complex and unfair.”

Charlotte Leslie MP: Ebola, ISIS, UKIP – and the Battle of the Intangible

Politics is bad at dealing with such intangible things as people’s psychology; bad at encompassing and promoting real belief systems; bad at emotional intelligence.

Nadhim Zahawi MP: Why our message is now getting through

There’s a straight choice between the Prime Minister who’s delivered the fastest growth of any major advanced economy and the guy who forgot to mention the deficit.

Dr Robin Cordell: The Conservatives are best for the NHS – and care passionately about it

We have resourced it through sound economic policy, and have empowered the professionals engaged at the front line.

Cameron: My vow to the NHS

He will reinforce a commitment to protect the health budget with a reminder of his own family experience of the health service.

Nick Herbert MP: Personal health and education accounts – and a new right to own. Here’s why you should vote Conservative next May.

My book about and vision of what we should do if we win next May.

Jeremy Hunt MP: Six NHS questions Ed Miliband and Andy Burnham can’t answer

Labour’s health policy is heavy on rhetoric and light on policy detail.

Jack Hart: Child protection? The Ashya King case shows how the authorities can get it wrong

Increasingly, the state wants to have its say – often through legislation – on how parents raise their children. We should be wary.

Reasons to be cheerful

Gloomy as the headlines may be, here are some reasons to look on the bright side.

Your doctor may well be killing you

GPs who prescribe unnecessary antibiotics just to stop patients nagging them are putting all our lives at risk.

Cllr Chris Whitehouse: Four ways to help reduce obesity

It’s time that Ministers stopped talking about obesity and started instead using the public health levers that remain under their control to deliver action and results.

Iain Dale: Coming – The NHS: Things that need to be said. My new book.

And: Clegg – where is he? Simmonds – what’s he on? ISIS: they have no Islamic state and we should bomb them. Plus: The new peerages – on the whole, a mistake.

John Baron MP: Securing earlier diagnosis of cancer

The later the diagnosis, the lower a patient’s chances of recovery.