Now is not the time for health cuts

Rachael Jolley: The NHS spends millions on treating avoidable lifestyle diseases – any cut in public health budgets would be a false economy

Women need choice, not caesareans

Belinda Phipps: Figures show the NHS's Maternity Matters programme is failing. Empowered mothers would choose fewer medicalised births

A revolution in care

Jackie Ashley: Conference season 09: Setting up a National Care Service would be equivalent to the creation of the NHS – now to tell the public what social care is