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Mar
16
Cowper’s Cut 367: A Farewell To Arms’ Length, as NHS England is put out of its misery

Cowper’s Cut 367: A Farewell To Arms’ Length, as NHS England is put out of its misery

“We’ll never really know if NHS independence was effective: it is impossible meaningfully to separate the performance of the
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Mar
09
Cowper’s Cut 366: Brief expectations

Cowper’s Cut 366: Brief expectations

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Mar
02
Cowper’s Cut 365: Accentuate the positive; don’t mess with Mr In-Between!

Cowper’s Cut 365: Accentuate the positive; don’t mess with Mr In-Between!

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Feb
25
Cowper’s Cut 364: The Woman In Black fades out

Cowper’s Cut 364: The Woman In Black fades out

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Feb
23
Cowper’s Cut 363: When all you’ve got is financial lying, everything looks like capital-to-revenue transfers

Cowper’s Cut 363: When all you’ve got is financial lying, everything looks like capital-to-revenue transfers

7 min read
Feb
16
Cowper’s Cut 362: The Penny officially drops in Amandaland

Cowper’s Cut 362: The Penny officially drops in Amandaland

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Feb
09
Cowper’s Cut 361: Schrödinger’s 10 Year NHS Plan

Cowper’s Cut 361: Schrödinger’s 10 Year NHS Plan

It’s been quite the week for news about Health But Social Care Secretary Wes Streeting’s advisors. New Cavendish
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Feb
03
Cowper’s Cut 360: No surprises as the countdown to Amandexit becomes explicit

Cowper’s Cut 360: No surprises as the countdown to Amandexit becomes explicit

It will not surprise ‘Cut’ subscribers to see a fresh effort to recalibrate and reset the general fictional scale deployed
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Jan
26
Cowper’s Cut 359: A farewell to fiction

Cowper’s Cut 359: A farewell to fiction

In 2019, I wrote in the BMJ of the Boris Johnson government’s health pledges, “the Tory manifesto has an
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Jan
19
Cowper’s Cut 358: Towards NHSCapital

Cowper’s Cut 358: Towards NHSCapital

It’s only January, but Health But Social Care Secretary Wes Streeting may already have made 2025’s most futile
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