Mr Andy Cowper

Mr Andy Cowper

United Kingdom
Oct
18

Editor's blog Monday 18 October 2010: Labour's shadow health team confirmed

I'm pretty sure HSJ had the names last week, but the portfolios have been released this afternoon. Unsurprisingly,
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Oct
18

Editor's blog Monday 18 October 2010: An interesting update: £2 billion for social care?

BBC News' Laura Kunessberg reports an anonymous briefing that an extra £2 billion funding for adult social care will
Oct
18

Editor's blog Monday 18 October 2010: DH consultations on choice and the information revolution

The Department of Health's rather belated consultations on patient choice [http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Consultations/Liveconsultations/
Oct
18

Editor's blog Monday 18 October 2010: The unreal and real challenges facing the NHS

It's interesting to see that the two centre-left 'broadsheet' newspapers start the week of the Comprehensive
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Oct
18

The Maynard Doctrine: Out of chaos comes what?

Professor Alan Maynard sees covert entrepreneurialism emerging and wonders about the opportunity costs of Mr Lansley’s liberation Despite the
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Oct
17

Editor's blog Sunday 17 October 2010: Scotland chooses free prescriptions over managers

Interesting times continue, as the minority SNP government in Holyrood choose to make prescriptions free in April 2011 by dint
Oct
15

Editor's blog Friday 15 October 2010: Ironic policymaking on generics

In a masterpiece of comic timing, the DH yesterday issued a statement that mandatory generic substitution in primary care would
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Oct
14

Editor's blog Thursday 14 October 2010: EXCLUSIVE - Reinventing the prioritisation wheel with the DH National Quality Board

On a day when the abolition of overall government quangos is big news [http://download.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/ndpb/public-bodies-list.
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Oct
14

Editor's blog Thursday 14 October 2010: Unison bid for White Paper judicial review fails

I predicted this on here a few times, and indeed another quarto of the Book Of Things That Are Not
Oct
14

Editor's blog Tuesday 12 October 2010: The answer is 30 administrative NHS bodies in England. Now what's the question?

The answer, it seems, is thirty organisations across the English NHS. The question is less straightforward to discern, but the
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