Mr Andy Cowper

Mr Andy Cowper

United Kingdom
Jan
13

Editorial Friday 13 January 2017: "Calm down" - Team May channel Cameron, Enfield and Winner

Karl Marx wrote in the eighteenth brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, quoting Hegel, ”all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so
2 min read
Jan
13

Editorial Thursday 12 January 2017: Mayan civilisation and punishment leakings

Six months since her arrival in 10 Downing Street after the other Conservative leadership candidates disappeared in puffs of stupidity
4 min read
Jan
12

The Maynard Doctrine: The Empress has no clothes

Health economist Professor Alan Maynard calls Mayday on Number 10's health and care policy position Hans Christian Anderson’
3 min read
Jan
11

Editorial Wednesday 23 November 2016: Stuck outside the Treasury with the funding blues again

Well. Wasn’t that a bracing few weeks? Let’s start with the money, shall we? NHS Improvement’s Q2
8 min read
Dec
16

Editorial Thursday 15 December 2016: The three deals to be done

Connoisseurs of U-turns are going to have some fun with Prime Minister Theresa May’s administration. The Teflon determination on
1 min read
Dec
01

Editorial Thursday 1 December 2016: Interview with NHS Improvement chair Ed Smith on 'Developing People, Improving Care'

NHS Improvement [https://improvement.nhs.uk] chair Ed Smith talks to Health Policy Insight about the new ‘Developing People, Improving
11 min read
Nov
25

Editorial Friday 25 November 2016: Top trolling, Team Brexit!

Just when you thought this week couldn't get any sillier [http://www.healthpolicyinsight.com/?q=node/1669], Team
1 min read
Nov
24

Editorial Thursday 24 November 2016: Five thoughts about yesterday

1. Social care got less than nothing Not only were the sector-wide representations that social care needed more funding ignored
1 min read
Nov
23

Editorial Thursday 17 May 2012: Paying a quick trip to the real world, before chilling in a safe space with Andrew Lansley

The other day, I wrote about the Risk Register melodrama [http://www.healthpolicyinsight.com/?q=node/1374], and touched on
3 min read
Nov
02

The Maynard Doctrine: How to fund the NHS - zombie policies rise yet again

Health economist Professor Alan Maynard would much rather not have to write this article again, but evidently it's
5 min read