Technology enables us to live longer and healthier lives, says Neelie Kroes, the vice-president of the European Commission

A King's Fund commission shows that government should cut regulatory demands rather than denigrate managers, says chief executive Chris Ham

The health service is good at technology, but needs to apply IT to supporting clinical care, says Matthew Swindells, chair of BCS Health

Many of the government's plans to reorganise the health service are good in principle but more practical ideas are needed, says Nigel Edwards, acting chief executive of the NHS Confederation

GPs in England are pretty good, but quality varies more than it should, says King's Fund chief executive Chris Ham

Dr Hamish Meldrum's opening address to the British Medical Association's special representative meeting (SRM) in London on 15 March

GPs, hospitals and national services continue to use 084 phone numbers that cost extra to call. It's time to hang up on them, argues campaigner David Hickson

Maternity wards need the right people in the right place at the right time, says King's Fund health policy fellow Natasha Curry

The government's planned transformation of the NHS is being hindered because of low levels of mutual trust in parts of the NHS, according to research by Dr Andrew Day and Dr Guy Lubitsh of Ashridge Business School

The Department of Health wants to know how staff education and training can be improved, writes its director general for workforce Clare Chapman

NHS data provided to researchers in an 'anonymous' form is often easy to link to the patients concerned, believes Dr Lindsey Brown

The NHS must convert its extensive central IT investments into a platform for innovation, says BCS Health's Dr Justin Whatling

The health bill leaves some fairly big questions to be answered – such as who will own the organisations spending £80 a year, writes Professor Colin Talbot of Manchester Business School

Many aspects of the government's NHS reforms go both ways at once, with potential for conflict, argues King's Fund director of policy Anna Dixon

Andrew Lansley's plan to reform the health service England deserves nuanced criticism rather than dismissal, argues SA Mathieson

With the health and social care bill about to be published, King's Fund chief executive Chris Ham asks which key issues need to be resolved

Without better health education, it is hard to see how the government will change patients' behaviour, argues Volterra Health's Charlotte Alldritt

The DoH's apparent enthusiasm for openness has not been reflected in its consultation paper on information, argue Eckhard Schwarzat and Malcolm Newbury

Recent presentations by the key people involved in English NHS IT suggest where the power lies, writes SA Mathieson