Mr Andy Cowper

Mr Andy Cowper

United Kingdom
Mar
02

Editor's blog Wednesday 2 March 2011: Does IHP spell the end of the NHS? No, probably not.

Guardian social affairs editor Randeep Ramesh has, in association with Channel 4 News, broken this story about private healthcare firm
3 min read
Mar
01

Editor’s blog Tuesday 1 March 2011: Commissioning inquiry; The Thunderer thunders; and the new health lottery

The Health Select Committee resumed its deliberations on commissioning this morning, hearing evidence from a partner in Beechcrofts, and health
2 min read
Mar
01

Editor's blog Monday 28 February 2011: Shirley, you can't be serious

It is a truth universally acknowledged that Airplane! [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080339/] was one of the funniest films
2 min read
Mar
01

Editor's blog Monday 28 February 2011: Lansley, from Liberator to Saviour - the BBC Any Questions transcript

I'm very grateful to a long-standing Health Policy Insight reader who gave up an indecent amount of her
15 min read
Mar
01

Editor's blog Monday 28 February 2011: Our Saviour - Trappist on price competition; reality issues; RIP commissioning

"I’m saving the NHS by giving it to patients and the staff of the NHS" Andrew Lansley,
3 min read
Feb
27

Editor's blog Friday 25 February 2011: Competition matters. Will the real David Bennett please stand up?

The New World is becoming clearer and the battle lines drawn even more sharply. Labour’s shadow health secretary John
4 min read
Feb
23

Guest editorial Wednesday 23 February 2011: U turn if you want to - towards consensus?

Irwin Brown of the Socialist Health Association suggests a strange consensus is emerging on the real way to deliver reform
3 min read
Feb
23

Editor's blog Friday 18 February 2011: Flory's 'Dear Comrades' letter on tariff

Here's the David Flory letter [http://www.dh.gov.uk/prod_consum_dh/groups/dh_digitalassets/documents/digitalasset/
2 min read
Feb
22

Editor's blog Monday 21 February 2011: PM Cameron tries to sell reform a different way

For the first time, the Coalition Government appears to be under significant external pressure on NHS policy. They may come
6 min read
Feb
22

Editor's blog Tuesday 22 February 2011: The private sector - isn't it great?

Simon Bowers of The Guardian reports that SOS Lansley and the NHS's PCTs and SHAs have filed high
1 min read