Mar
26
Cowper's Cut 262: On the defensive
In life and in politics, when you're explaining, you're all too often on the back foot.
11 min read
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Mar
22
Andrew Foster RIP
Andrew Foster, whose most recent healthcare job was as chair of Manx Care, has died after a short illness, Health
40 min read
Mar
19
Cowper's Cut 261: The 'mullet' strategy over the junior doctors' strike
The Hunt Budget
The Alan Comeuppance is complete.
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Mar
13
Cowper's Cut 260: Unsurprising numbers, as The Banker raises the BMA
Financial reality is always the order of the day for the NHS in March. The final month of the financial
11 min read
Mar
05
Cowper’s Cut 259: The illusion of control
"There is no version of reality whereby "several million people will receive the vaccine before Christmas" so
11 min read
Feb
27
Cowper's Cut 258: The Government’s revealed “intensive” NHS pay strategy - blinking
Improved UK public sector finances (against forecast) reported by the Office for National Statistics may have given Chancellor Jeremy Hunt
11 min read
Feb
19
Cowper's Cut 257: From love in an escalator to the brown stuff
Well, I did say in last week's 'Cut' that the RCN needed to work out how
9 min read
Feb
12
Cowper’s Cut 256: Everything you know may be wrong
Could negotiations on nurses pay look at this year as well as next year? @JustinOnWeb asks Maria Caulfield, Health Minister
15 min read
Feb
06
Cowper’s Cut 255: The work of mechanical reproduction in the age of art
"I would love – nothing would give me more pleasure – than to wave a magic wand and have all of
12 min read
Jan
30
Cowper’s Cut 254: 'Health Week III: This Time, It's Personnel'
"There are people dying because they cannot get scans."
Singer @RodStewart offers to fund scans for a number
14 min read