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Mar
07
Cowper’s Cut 207: The Saj brings the 1991 energy to NHS reform

Cowper’s Cut 207: The Saj brings the 1991 energy to NHS reform

Experience is a wonderful thing: it lets us recognise the same unforced errors when they're being made yet
12 min read
Feb
28
Cowper's Cut update: Ooops! NHSE did it again. NHS tariff withdrawn weeks before the new financial year

Cowper's Cut update: Ooops! NHSE did it again. NHS tariff withdrawn weeks before the new financial year

NHS England has gone Full Britney. To borrow from health policy guru La Spears' comeback hit, everybody's
2 min read
Feb
28
Cowper's Cut 206: Living with leadership ambitions (oh, and Covid19)

Cowper's Cut 206: Living with leadership ambitions (oh, and Covid19)

The Government's heavily-trailed 'living with Covid' announcements last Monday were jeopardised by a last-minute row between
9 min read
Feb
21
Cowper's Cut 205: So, about that workforce plan?

Cowper's Cut 205: So, about that workforce plan?

"For years we have been on the edge, working within an underfunded, badly managed, abused system. We  are shipwrecked
9 min read
Feb
14
Cowper's Cut 204: From leaks to launch, Electoral Recovery Plan and integration White Paper underwhelm

Cowper's Cut 204: From leaks to launch, Electoral Recovery Plan and integration White Paper underwhelm

First the leaks ... Delays to the completion of the elective recovery plan (which winsomely, Health But Social Care Secretary Sajid
13 min read
Feb
07
Cowper’s Cut 203: Fifty Grays of shade

Cowper’s Cut 203: Fifty Grays of shade

Fifty Grays of shade The redacted update of the Sue Gray report into the Government's 'Partygate [https:
7 min read
Jan
31
Cowper's Cut 202: A let-off for the PM, as The Saj reveals 'a cunning plan'

Cowper's Cut 202: A let-off for the PM, as The Saj reveals 'a cunning plan'

The delayed publication of the Sue Gray report into Partygate [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-60166997] due to the
14 min read
Jan
24
Cowper's Cut 201: Living in WTF times, redisorganisation and recycling failed ideas

Cowper's Cut 201: Living in WTF times, redisorganisation and recycling failed ideas

It’s good that the data continues to show reductions in the seven-day case rates of hospitalisations with Covid19 [https:
8 min read
Jan
17
Cowper's Cut 200: Elect a clown, get a circus

Cowper's Cut 200: Elect a clown, get a circus

We’ll get on to this week’s pitiful political pantomime directly, but let’s treat ourselves to starting ‘Cowper’
11 min read
Jan
11
Moving the goalposts: the strange case of the fictional privatisation of the NHS

Moving the goalposts: the strange case of the fictional privatisation of the NHS

As the Health Bill returns to the Lords, the edifying sight and sound of political idiots and merch-vending grifters crying
4 min read