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Sep
15
Cowper’s Cut 340 (part 2): a post-Darzi update

Cowper’s Cut 340 (part 2): a post-Darzi update

I sent this week’s column early on the assumption that subscribers might prefer to have my fairly immediate assessment
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Sep
13
Why it’s worth subscribing to ‘Cowper’s Cut’ on  Health Policy Insight

Why it’s worth subscribing to ‘Cowper’s Cut’ on  Health Policy Insight

Hello, and welcome to newly-registered visitors. I think some of you will have come here via my recent appearance on
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Sep
12
Cowper’s Cut 340: D-day launches Lord Darzi’s second NHS reform report

Cowper’s Cut 340: D-day launches Lord Darzi’s second NHS reform report

Lord Darzi’s ‘Independent Investigation Of The NHS In England’  does two main things: it tells health experts nothing they
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Sep
08
Cowper’s Cut 339: The Great British Lord-Off - Darzi vs Lansley. Seconds out!

Cowper’s Cut 339: The Great British Lord-Off - Darzi vs Lansley. Seconds out!

It seems that this week will end the post-election ‘Waiting For Darzi’ era. Tory health reforms left UK open to
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Sep
01
Cowper’s Cut 338: September Gurls

Cowper’s Cut 338: September Gurls

Internal BMA backlash against militant anti-Cass tendency The British Medical Association finds itself beset by avoidable, irrelevant internal politics which
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Aug
25
Cowper’s Cut 337: On the subject of money

Cowper’s Cut 337: On the subject of money

It’s another week when we don’t yet know whether the Labour Government knows its Chablis from its chardonnay
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Aug
18
Cowper’s Cut 336: Rumsfelding the NHS

Cowper’s Cut 336: Rumsfelding the NHS

It’s been another fairly quiet week in health policy and politics. After the past few years, that’s not
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Aug
11
Cowper’s Cut 335: Summertime Blues

Cowper’s Cut 335: Summertime Blues

I won’t pretend that this has been the most action-packed week ever in English health policy and politics. Showing
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Aug
04
Cowper’s Cut 334: A possible deal on junior doctors’ pay, but a doughnut for Dilnot

Cowper’s Cut 334: A possible deal on junior doctors’ pay, but a doughnut for Dilnot

Racist riots Rioters throw rocks at ‘terrified’ NHS nurses on way to work as emergency coverThe Filipino NHS workers were
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Aug
04
Showing us that the NHS is anti-racist

Showing us that the NHS is anti-racist

Professor Partha Kar is a diabetes consultant in Portsmouth, and author of the first plan for addressing racism in and
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