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Aug
10
Cowper’s Cut 388: Truce Social, Milburn opines and medical grumbles

Cowper’s Cut 388: Truce Social, Milburn opines and medical grumbles

10 min read
Aug
08
Why you should subscribe to ‘Cowper’s Cut’

Why you should subscribe to ‘Cowper’s Cut’

This is my intermittent marketing push to ask you to subscribe to Health Policy Insight: the home of my weekly
5 min read
Aug
03
Cowper’s Cut 387: ‘We’ve marched them up to the top of the hill: remind me about the next bit?’

Cowper’s Cut 387: ‘We’ve marched them up to the top of the hill: remind me about the next bit?’

8 min read
Jul
27
Cowper’s Cut 386: Irony while the strike’s hot

Cowper’s Cut 386: Irony while the strike’s hot

8 min read
Jul
20
Cowper’s Cut 385: The generation game

Cowper’s Cut 385: The generation game

8 min read
Jul
13
Cowper’s Cut 384: The One After The NHS Ten-Year Plan Dropped

Cowper’s Cut 384: The One After The NHS Ten-Year Plan Dropped

6 min read
Jul
03
Cowper’s Cut 383: The specious hallucination of the NHS Ten-Year Plan

Cowper’s Cut 383: The specious hallucination of the NHS Ten-Year Plan

If as a government, you wanted to substantially lower expectations for your NHS Ten-Year Plan, then you might arrange for
6 min read
Jun
29
Cowper’s Cut 382: Some questions for successful NHS reform

Cowper’s Cut 382: Some questions for successful NHS reform

At the launch of the Big NHS Plan, the Prime Minster warns the nation that “our ambitions for the future
4 min read
Jun
22
Cowper’s Cut 381: The NHS Ten-Year Plan and Mrs Doyle’s ‘cup of tea’ paradox

Cowper’s Cut 381: The NHS Ten-Year Plan and Mrs Doyle’s ‘cup of tea’ paradox

I haven’t been chasing down every riddle or rumour about what’s in The 3:7 Forward View (AKA
4 min read
Jun
15
Cowper’s Cut 380: Will Taylorism do?

Cowper’s Cut 380: Will Taylorism do?

We can too easily forget people’s contributions to the English NHS and health system. One of the first people
11 min read