Mr Andy Cowper

Mr Andy Cowper

United Kingdom
Mar
09
Cowper’s Cut 366: Brief expectations

Cowper’s Cut 366: Brief expectations

Next boss of NHS England prepares purge of senior leadership teamExclusive: Jim Mackey plans ‘big clearout’ as he steers NHS
9 min read
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!

“You’ve got to accentuate the positive Eliminate the negative Latch on to the affirmative Don’t mess with Mr
15 min read
Feb
25
Cowper’s Cut 364: The Woman In Black fades out

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

Amanda Pritchard quits as NHS England chief executive in shock moveExclusive: Departure follows meetings with Wes Streeting and unusual criticism
2 min read
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

The Labour government highlighted their early (relative) win of getting the extra two million diagnostic tests delivered a few months
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

To the considerable surprise of absolutely no readers of ‘Cowper’s Cut’, Dr Penny Dash was announced as the preferred
16 min read
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
7 min read
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
12 min read
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
7 min read
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
11 min read
Jan
12
Cowper’s Cut 357: Plumbing the depths of winter

Cowper’s Cut 357: Plumbing the depths of winter

Exit, pursued by a barefaced ketamine-addled tech bro If The Ketamine Kid (nepo baby, milkfloat vendor and neo-far-right populist Elon
8 min read