Mental health | end of life care | elected mayors

Mental health | alcohol consumption | a new politics

Welfare cuts plan | WHO obesity warning | Norfolk’s ‘rainbow’ alliance

The austerity delusion | public services policy | affordable housing

GP stress | election manifestos | public spending

NHS | welfare reform | pick of the jobs

Ageing population | welfare | NHS reform

Budget 2015 | benefit cap | housing

Unemployment | Benefits Street | pick of the blogs

Mental health | decriminalising drugs | housing

Domestic violence | GP shortages | welfare U-turn

NHS whistleblowers | Empty homes | Charitable ways to spend Valentine’s Day

• Child sexual exploitation in Rotherham
• Time to rethink benefit sanctions
• Leaving the charity sector

Aggressive recruitment sees doctors from at least 27 countries hired in 32 of the 160 hospital trusts in England

Coalition’s claims under scrutiny after research shows only a fifth of 2m people find employment after losing jobseeker’s allowance

Nearly 50% say Labour has best approach to health, according to research by former Conservative chair

Political row over the NHS deepens as more hospitals declare major incidents as they struggle to cope with demand

Plans include cutting 6,000 jobs and reducing opening hours at the new Library of Birmingham to make £300m savings

George Osborne delivers the final autumn statement of this parliament

Report calls for new charter of rights for people with learning disabilities after Winterbourne View scandal