Mr Andy Cowper

Mr Andy Cowper

United Kingdom
Oct
22

Editor's blog Friday 22 October 2010: NHS Confederation and Monitor react to news of NHS underspend changes by Treasury

You will probably have seen the earlier post about HSJ"s story on the effective loss of NHS suprplus
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Oct
22

Editor's blog Friday 22 October 2010: The economics of the madhouse - Treasury pinches £5.5 billion accumulated NHS surplus

Good afternoon to you, on a Friday of economic madness. Health Service Journal's Sally Gainsbury has found out
2 min read
Oct
22

The Maynard Doctrine: The Con-‘em Coalition and the management of hospitals

Professor Alan Maynard describes how the ‘two divisions’ running hospitals must collaborate for the NHS to survive austerity The Con-‘
3 min read
Oct
21

Editor's blog Wednesday 20 October 2010: Dorrell quizzes Lansley on NHS Direct / 111 service plans

Former health secretary and health select committee chair Stephen Dorrell MP is doing a very good job. Andrew 'Liberatin&
2 min read
Oct
21

Editor's blog Thursday 21 October 2010: Shadow health secretary John Healey accuses Lansley of "breaking your NHS promises"

Labour's shadow health secretary John Healey MP lost little time getting stuck into Liberatin' Andrew Lansley over
5 min read
Oct
21

Editor's blog Thursday 21 October 2010: Has the DH stitched up Total Place?

Total Place - what a laugh, eh? Like Tony Blair, it was the future once. Then pre-coalition, senior Tories were
1 min read
Oct
21

Editor's blog Thursday 21 October 2010: Institute for Fiscal Studies on the 2010 Comprehensive Spending Review

The Institute for Fiscal Studies is the Judi Dench of public policy - a universally-admired, 24-carat National Treasure. What it
2 min read
Oct
20

Editor's blog Wednesday 20 October 2010: Five thoughts about today's CSR

1. No surprises on funding; either that the protected real-terms funding promise was kept, or that at 0.1% annually
1 min read
Oct
20

Editor's blog Wednesday 20 October 2010: Extracts from Chancellor George Osborne's speech to Parliament on the CSR

"I believe the public sector needs to change to support the aspirations and expectations of today’s population, rather
4 min read
Oct
20

Editor's blog Wednesday 20 October 2010: CSR - the facts and the figures

The Treasury CSR document is here [http://cdn.hm-treasury.gov.uk/sr2010_completereport.pdf]. The DH summary document is here
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