Jun 22 Cowper’s Cut 381: The NHS Ten-Year Plan and Mrs Doyle’s ‘cup of tea’ paradox Jun 22, 2025 4 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 Jun 8, 2025 9 min read
Jun 01 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) Jun 1, 2025 9 min read
May 25 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 May 25, 2025 7 min read
May 18 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 May 18, 2025 7 min read
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 May 11, 2025 8 min read