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Mar
22
Cowper’s Cut 420: Singing the Higgs Boson Blues with the Department Of Implausible Solutions

Cowper’s Cut 420: Singing the Higgs Boson Blues with the Department Of Implausible Solutions

In English health policy and politics as in life, there are less important weeks. This one just past has been
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Mar
15
Cowper’s Cut 419: You mean people don’t like having their jobs abolished incompetently and without any real plan?

Cowper’s Cut 419: You mean people don’t like having their jobs abolished incompetently and without any real plan?

It doesn’t seem remarkable that the Health Foundation’s newly-released interviews with integrated care system leaders found a cohort
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Mar
08
Cowper’s Cut 418: Culture wars

Cowper’s Cut 418: Culture wars

The politics and policy of the NHS in England may not actually be dead, but they do seem quite dead-adjacent.
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Mar
01
Cowper’s Cut 417: Inertia reel

Cowper’s Cut 417: Inertia reel

The interim report of the ‘Independent Investigation into Maternity and Neonatal Services in England’ chaired by Labour peer Baroness Valerie
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Feb
22
Cowper’s Cut 416: Greige Expectations and Stuck Record Syndrome

Cowper’s Cut 416: Greige Expectations and Stuck Record Syndrome

The past couple of months of more or less uninterrupted rain and lack of sun has amounted to greige weather.
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Feb
15
Cowper’s Cut 415: “Mutual consent”

Cowper’s Cut 415: “Mutual consent”

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Feb
08
Cowper’s Cut 413: Mandygate

Cowper’s Cut 413: Mandygate

This week’s revelations of Lord Peter Mandelson of Foy’s continued, close and corrupt relationship with financier-paedophile Jeffrey Epstein
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Feb
01
Cowper’s Cut 412: Letting down the Treasury Munchkins is a niche move

Cowper’s Cut 412: Letting down the Treasury Munchkins is a niche move

Dave West of Health Service Journal has this cracking exclusive about a secret funding deal between HM Treasury and the
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Jan
25
Cowper’s Cut 411: “I don’t think we’re centralising at all!”

Cowper’s Cut 411: “I don’t think we’re centralising at all!”

After 26 years of writing about the politics, policy and management of the English NHS, I’m surprised that I
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Jan
18
Cowper’s Cut 410: The age of miracles

Cowper’s Cut 410: The age of miracles

“This excuses culture does the centre-left no favours. If we tell the public that we can’t make anything work,
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