Mr Andy Cowper

Mr Andy Cowper

United Kingdom
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
7 min read
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
7 min read
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'
1 min read
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
3 min read
Jan
26

Editor's blog Wednesday 26 January 2011: BMA concedes Special Representative Meeting over Health And Social Care Bill reforms

The BMA is to hold a Special Representative Meeting on Tuesday 15 March 2011 [http://www.bma.org.uk/representation/
1 min read
Jan
26

Tuesday 25 January 2011: Commons Health Questions, January 2011 edition - missed targets and Burns Night

VERDICT: Not much heat, and even less light. There were a few good questions, from Ben Bradshaw on waiting times
3 min read
Jan
26

Editor's blog Wednesday 26 January 2011: Politics trumping economics

That well-known anarcho-syndicalist [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarcho-syndicalism] Sir Richard Lambert, the outgoing Director-General of the Confederation of British
1 min read
Jan
25

Tuesday 25 January 2011: The future manager, sucking up, Ascension Day and Judas goats

I've written before about the two main types of managers who will flourish in the 'liberated'
1 min read
Jan
25

Tuesday 25 January 2011: Lansley responds to criticism of the Health and Social Care Bill

The other day, I published the text of shadow health secretary John Healey's first speech responding to the
3 min read
Jan
25

Editor's blog Friday 21 January 2011: Text of John Healey speech to Kings Fund

Speech to the Kings Fund – John Healey MP, Shadow Health Secretary 20 January 2011 The truth behind the Tory plans
12 min read