Aug
03
Cowper’s Cut 387: ‘We’ve marched them up to the top of the hill: remind me about the next bit?’
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Jul
27
Cowper’s Cut 386: Irony while the strike’s hot
This week, we saw the BMA Resident Doctors 2008 Pay Differential Historical Re-Enactment Society charging into inaction, as they took
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Jul
20
Cowper’s Cut 385: The generation game
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Jul
13
Cowper’s Cut 384: The One After The NHS Ten-Year Plan Dropped
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Jul
03
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
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Jun
29
Cowper’s Cut 382: Some questions for successful NHS reform
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Jun
22
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
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Jun
15
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
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Jun
08
Cowper’s Cut 379: In office, but not in power as the NHS drinks on in The World’s Biggest Last Chance Saloon
English health policy and politics of the Conservative governments 2010-24 is best understood in its three distinct eras:
1. The
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Jun
01
Cowper’s Cut 378: Management by improvisation
I wanted to give the new regime at what was once NHS England (and before that, the NHS Commissioning Board)
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