Pinning Down Miliband: Health

When it comes to the NHS, the Labour leader enjoys making promises: to tear up Coalition policy, to reduce waiting times, to somehow find the money… but can he deliver?

Cllr Chris Whitehouse: The Bill that would transform our doctors into licensed killers

The Assisted Dying Bill requires that the intention to die has been formed “without coercion or duress”. How is a GP to know that?

Lord Flight: The five economic problems that Osborne must tackle

The deficit. A feeble savings rate. Low productivity. Public sector pay that’s too high compared to private sector pay. The high middle class tax bill.

We need far less talk about tax cuts and far more about spending cuts

We have a deficit of over £100 billion. We have record household debt. We need an Affordability Commission.

Lord Ashcroft: The Conservatives gain five points and overtake Labour in this week’s Ashcroft National Poll

The Juncker Effect, if that is what it is, certainly outweighs any Coulson Effect.

Fiona Bruce MP: How the Government’s three parent policy is risking genetic abnormalities

And what my amendment to the Consumer Rights Bill seeks to do about it.

Julia Manning: A spoonful less of sugar?

A narrow focus on one ingredient in food is really not going to solve the obesity problem.

In praise of Ken Clarke

We get in our bid to be nice about him before rather than after he’s fired.

WATCH: Hunt speaks out against the “under-reporting of safety incidents” in the NHS

“We want to make sure that all hospitals are as good as the very best,” added the Health Secretary.

Sarah Newton MP: Sepsis – the hidden killer

Tackling this killer will save lives and money in our NHS.

Robert Halfon MP: Hospital parking charges are a stealth tax on the sick and vulnerable 

Some hospitals charge as much as £72 a day. This has to stop – and it can do, if the NHS wasted less on “branded” drugs.

Charlotte Leslie MP: My decision to stand for election to chair the Health Select Committee

There are big, brave, politically difficult discussions that we need to have as a nation, if we want to save our NHS from going over a cliff.

Bob Blackman MP: The plain packaging of cigarettes will protect the health of young people

What is not Conservative is the extreme and antique nineteenth century liberal position that demands no interference with the claimed “freedom” of companies.

Edward Leigh MP: The lesson of these Euro-elections: Modernisation has failed. Get back to real conservatism. End the Coalition now.

My programme: Let grammars expand. Means-test incidental health costs. The Green Deal is a joke. Immigration is still a farce. Apologise for same sex marriage.

Andrew RT Davies: After the hospital horrors in Bridgend, we need a full, independent enquiry into Wales’s NHS

This week, one of the worst reports on a Welsh hospital ever written has been published – the Princess of Wales in Bridgend.