Mr Andy Cowper

Mr Andy Cowper

United Kingdom
Feb
04

Editor's blog Friday 4 February 2011: DH staff survey makes for grim if unsurprising reading

Oh dear. Previously, DH has fared not-so-well in Cabinet Office capacity and capability reviews. Their latest staff survey [http://www.
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Feb
02

Editor's blog Wednesday 2 February 2011: "Beyond Narnia" - an update from the front line

Earlier today, I was asked on Twitter (where I'm @HPIAndyCowper [http://twitter.com/#!/HPIAndyCowper]; do say hello if
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Feb
02

Editor's blog Wednesday 2 February 2011: Accountability matters - Nicholson and O'Brien at the PAC

The recent session of the Public Accounts Committee with NHS Supreme Soviet Chair Sir David Nicholson and DH permanent secretary
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Feb
01

Editor's blog Tuesday 1 February 2011: Clustering arrangements for PCTs

I don't want to be unkind to whoever wrote the DH's PCT cluster implementation guidance [http:
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Feb
01

Editor's blog Tuesday 1 February 2011: Commons second reading of Health and Social Care Bill

You'll already know that the second reading of the Health and Social Care Bill passed last night. The
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Jan
31

Editor's blog Monday 31 January 2011: Government responds to health select committee report on commissioning

It's going to be a busy day. The Government has published its response to the health select committee&
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Jan
31

Editor's blog Monday 31 January 2011: Defending NHS reform: is PM Cameron using the Royal "we", or taking the piss?

Prime Minister David Cameron spends more of his political capital on SOS Lansley's reforms and continues his unctuous
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Jan
28

Editor's blog Friday 28 January 2011: Commons Library briefing elucidates Bill's changes further

I'm grateful to a reader of Health Policy Insight for giving me sight of the House Of Commons
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Jan
28

Editor's blog Friday 28 January 2011: Confusing people with evidence and facts

"What I tell you three times is true" - Lewis Carroll, 'The Hunting Of the Snark'
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Jan
27

The Maynard Doctrine: Building NHS reforms on sand - whatever happened to evidence-based policymaking?

Professor Alan Maynard suggests that evidence for a primary care-led NHS is seriously lacking. When an expensive system of healthcare
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