Mr Andy Cowper

Mr Andy Cowper

United Kingdom
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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Oct
14

Editor’s blog Wednesday 8 September 2010: The future of management

The future of management in the NHS isn't what it used to be. For many clinicians, this will
2 min read
Oct
14

Editor's blog Thursday 14 October 2010: Department of Health confirms that NHS Information Centre is not part of it

I have to wonder why the NHS Information Centre appears not to be telling the truth. You may remember from
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Oct
14

Editor's blog Thursday 14 October 2010: Global Britnell; NHS Alliance play Macbeth; and RTT waits creep up a little

Congratulations to Mark Britnell of KPMG, who in the best tradition of all things world-class, has now gone global. He
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Oct
13

Editor's blog Wednesday 13 October 2010: The NHS Information Centre thinks it's the Department of Health

Regular HPI readers will remember my previous exclusives revealing the sale of the NHS Information Centre’s share in commercial
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Oct
12

Editor's blog Tuesday 5 October 2010: Health Secretary Andrew Lansley's Conservative Party conference speech, translated

Andrew Lansley's speech to the Conservative Party Conference [http://www.conservatives.com/News/Speeches/2010/10/Andrew_Lansley_
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Oct
12

Guest editorial Tuesday 12 October 2010: Liberation from the Empire – the Local Government Association take on the White Paper

Irwin Brown of the Socialist Health Association looks at the bid by the Local Government Association’s bid for a
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Oct
11

Editor's blog Tuesday 12 October 2010: NHS Confederation response to White Paper - aims supported, means queried

The NHS Confederation's . [http://www.nhsconfed.org/OurWork/latestnews/Pages/NHS-Confederation-calls-action-health-reforms.aspx>response to the White Paper
6 min read
Oct
11

Editor's blog Monday 11 October 2010: NHS Confederation suspends FT Network director Sue Slipman

The NHS Confederation has confirmed that Sue Slipman [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sue_Slipman], the director of their foundation
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Oct
11

Editor's blog Monday 11 October 2010: Green's review of government procurement

After a day of hearing about how "shocking" it all was (Mary Whitehouse would be proud), Sir Philip
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