Nov
30
Cowper’s Cut 404: 2025’s Catch-22 of English health policy and politics - action on fiscal balance, or the RTT backlog?
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Nov
23
Cowper’s Cut 403: It’s a big mess, you say?
“In Whitehall we were very worried about the promises they (Labour) made before the election on not raising taxes because
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Nov
16
Cowper’s Cut 402: Can’t they both lose?
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Nov
09
Cowper’s Cut 401: ‘Resident doctors revolting? Try this one weird trick: petulance!’
7 min read
Nov
02
Cowper’s Cut 400: When is a choice not a choice? When it’s another vintage week for Team Milburn-Streeting
“When the PM and Secretary of State for Health and Social Care published the NHS 10-Year Plan on 3 July
6 min read
Oct
26
Cowper’s Cut 399: Now we rise, and we are everywhere
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Oct
19
Cowper’s Cut 398: Only really bad ideas can save us now
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Oct
12
Cowper’s Cut 397: Indirections
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Oct
05
Cowper’s Cut 396: Buying time for Wes Streeting’s Imaginary NHS Friend
It’s hard to see what the Government’s NHS theory of change is. This may be because they haven’
7 min read
Sep
28
Cowper’s Cut 395: The first virtual NHS redisorganisation is going so well
For the first time in what feels like a long time, we have the luxury of starting with genuinely good
9 min read