Aug
02
Cowper’s Cut 441: On the three broken psychological contracts and the many unresolved tensions affecting the English NHS
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Jul
29
Cowper’s Cut 440: “And would you like cuttings of long grass with your adult social care reform?”
Adult social care’s Bank of England 1997 independence moment, that was not.
PM and Mascara Kid Andy Burnham’s
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Jul
26
Cowper’s Cut 439: Make NHS decentralisation grate again
5 min read
Jul
21
Cowper’s Cut 438: Yvette Cooper is the new Secretary Of State For Health But Social Care
Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley Labour MP Yvette Cooper has been moved from Home Secretary (one of the Four Great Offices
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Jul
19
Cowper’s Cut 437: Devolutionary new PM Andy Burnham arrives to a centralising NHS Bill. Will the price be a 2026 Croydon List?
9 min read
Jul
12
Cowper’s Cut 436: When is abolishing NHS England not abolishing NHS England?
11 min read
Jul
05
Cowper’s Cut 435: Centralisation, centralisation, centralisation
9 min read
Jun
28
Cowper’s Cut 434: As the PLP’s Mascoronation of Andy Burnham approaches, a new Ockenden Report drops - but the Penny hasn’t dropped about who actually uses the NHS
7 min read
Jun
21
Cowper’s Cut 433: The Westminster return of The Mascara Kid
Burnham says ‘this is a final chance to change’ in his victory speechLabour’s Andy Burnham wins the Makerfield by-
8 min read
Jun
14
Cowper’s Cut 432: When the roses bloom again
What a surprise: the enormous drop in the RTT elective waiting list seen in the release last month which allowed
9 min read