Dec
15
Cowper’s Cut 353: Into winter
Having spent most of last week’s column writing about Labour’s evident lack of a health policy that confronts
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Mr Andy Cowper
Dec
08
Cowper’s Cut 352: From measurable milestones to millstones
I tell myself the story that I don’t like to be more unpleasant than is strictly necessary. I also
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Dec
01
Cowper’s Cut 351: Inflation in the price of financial lying
Cowper’s Cut: The price of financial lyingThe NHS will have to pay the price for cultivating a culture of
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Nov
24
Cowper’s Cut 350: Hancock - “The NHS was legally independent: I ended that independence.”
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Nov
17
Cowper’s Cut 349: Half-a-league-table, half-a-league table, half-a-league table onward!
“Half-a-league-table, half-a-league-table,
Half-a-league-table onward!
All in the valley of career death
Rode the six hundred.”
Secretary Of State For Health
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Nov
10
Cowper’s Cut 348: Truth or Consequences
I know I’ve written this line before, but it remains true that you can always tell when things are
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Nov
03
Cowper’s Cut 347: Let’s Twist again with The Woman In Black
I’m not saying that the English NHS has a limited repertoire of dance moves.
OK: I am saying that.
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Oct
27
Cowper’s Cut 346: Why the NHS NatChat shows that the Government’s health policy is missing
Few things say ‘we haven’t actually got a plan’ quite as fulsomely as the launch of a ‘National Conversation’
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Oct
20
Cowper’s Cut 345: “Oh, reason not the demand!”
‘King Lear’ is not one of the worst of Shakespeare’s tragedies. As the King begins to regret dividing and
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Oct
13
Cowper’s Cut 344: The Eras Tour
Simon Stevens-era NHS England take over 10 Downing Street
“Nin Pandit, the director of the Downing Street policy unit, has
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