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Jul
13
Cowper’s Cut 384: The One After The NHS Ten-Year Plan Dropped

Cowper’s Cut 384: The One After The NHS Ten-Year Plan Dropped

Reactions to the NHS Ten-Year Plan might best be described as studiedly polite from organisations who have or want contracts
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Jul
03
Cowper’s Cut 383: The specious hallucination of the NHS Ten-Year Plan

Cowper’s Cut 383: The specious hallucination of the NHS Ten-Year Plan

6 min read
Jun
29
Cowper’s Cut 382: Some questions for successful NHS reform

Cowper’s Cut 382: Some questions for successful NHS reform

4 min read
Jun
22
Cowper’s Cut 381: The NHS Ten-Year Plan and Mrs Doyle’s ‘cup of tea’ paradox

Cowper’s Cut 381: The NHS Ten-Year Plan and Mrs Doyle’s ‘cup of tea’ paradox

4 min read
Jun
15
Cowper’s Cut 380: Will Taylorism do?

Cowper’s Cut 380: Will Taylorism do?

11 min read
Jun
08
Cowper’s Cut 379: In office, but not in power as the NHS drinks on in The World’s Biggest Last Chance Saloon

Cowper’s Cut 379: In office, but not in power as the NHS drinks on in The World’s Biggest Last Chance Saloon

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Jun
01
Cowper’s Cut 378: Management by improvisation

Cowper’s Cut 378: Management by improvisation

I wanted to give the new regime at what was once NHS England (and before that, the NHS Commissioning Board)
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May
25
Cowper’s Cut 377: Narrative drift and fortune cookies

Cowper’s Cut 377: Narrative drift and fortune cookies

Almost everything I write these columns on the presumed basis that we, as a society, want effective public policy to
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May
18
Cowper’s Cut 376: Living in “really retail” times with The 3:7 Forward View

Cowper’s Cut 376: Living in “really retail” times with The 3:7 Forward View

It seems that the NHS in England will not undergo ‘Kibasification’, after all. Ministers push to improve draft 10-year plan
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May
11

Cowper’s Cut 375: Wake the dead

First came Health But Social Care Secretary Wes Streeting’s official announcement on taking office last year that “the NHS
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