Adrian Hilton: Miliband’s 48-hour GP promise will simply increase demand

It’s as practical as pledging that everyone will get a free taxi home on New Year’s Eve.

Ed Miliband MP: To help realise Disraeli’s One Nation vision, you should vote Labour next week

My party seeks to build an economy which works for the many, not for the few.

Brian Monteith: How Ministers got tangled up over tobacco packaging

The Government’s plan is unpopular – and there’s no evidence that it will work.

David Fagleman and Adam Wildman: The NHS will be broke in a decade unless integration happens

We need a move towards mutuals.

Lord Flight: Boom followed by bust – yet again?

Yes, interest rates are bound to rise. But I am optimistic about the economy – though we still need, as ever, to boost the savings rate.

Jeremy Lefroy MP: Let’s celebrate the achievements of vaccination programmes – and aim even higher

Millions of lives have been saved – and the right approach can save millions more.

Nick de Bois MP: Labour’s floated National Insurance hike wouldn’t solve the NHS’s problem

It didn’t do it under Blair and Brown, and wouldn’t do it in the future.

Charlotte Leslie MP: What we can and must do about the healthcare-damaging Working Time Directive

A new report shows the way. But there is a limit to what it can do to prevent the EU endangering patients and de-professionalising doctors.

Jeremy Hunt MP: Our new NHS safety movement will save lives

We can never be satisfied with a system in which any patients suffer avoidable harm.

Nick de Bois MP: Plain packaging doesn’t work

If you really want to cut smoking, there are better ways about it than those proposed in the Chantler Review.

Julia Manning: Can Saint Simon rescue the NHS?

The new CEO of NHS England starts today – and an election could ride on his success.

Andrew Haldenby: It’s time for radical reform of the health service

A new report for Reform by Lord Warner, a Blair health Minister and recent Gove appointee, points a way forward.

Phil Taylor: Are GPs heading for extinction?

The short answer: no. They’re simply being asked to deliver a bit more for the same amount of money.

Lord Ashcroft: By tackling diabetes, we can boost the nation’s wealth as well as people’s health

About 80 per cent of spending on people with the condition goes on treating complications that could, in many cases, have been prevented.

The NHS winter crisis that never happened

The BBC should be more careful with its coverage next year.