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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?

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Mar
08
Cowper’s Cut 418: Culture wars

Cowper’s Cut 418: Culture wars

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Mar
01
Cowper’s Cut 417: Inertia reel

Cowper’s Cut 417: Inertia reel

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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

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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

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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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Jan
11
Cowper’s Cut 409: People who need people

Cowper’s Cut 409: People who need people

The appointment of Danny Mortimer as the Department For Health But Social Care’s and NHS England’s new director-general
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