Mr Andy Cowper

Mr Andy Cowper

United Kingdom
Sep
26

Editor’s blog Wednesday 8 September 2010: The Wednesday WTF Award - inaugural tie

Here we go - a new feature, the Wednesday What The Flugelhorn (WTF) Award. The WTF Award will henceforth grace
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Sep
24

Editor’s blog Friday 24 September 2010: BMA set to oppose Lansley's pro-privatisation White Paper

Following the BMA's recent guidance on GP commissioning consortia [http://www.bma.org.uk/images/whitepapergpcguidence4sept2010_tcm41-199838.pdf]
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Sep
24

Editor’s blog Friday 24 September 2010: Learning from individual budgets - IBSEN's choice

It's easy to be critical of the Department of Health; often with good reason. Nonetheless, they have at
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Sep
24

Editor’s blog Friday 24 September 2010: The quango cull: Lansley confuses re-definition with abolition

We already knew quite a lot of this [http://www.healthpolicyinsight.com/?q=node/659], but this morning's
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Sep
23

Editor’s blog Thursday 23 September 2010: Unison's 'hokey-cokey' legal challenge to the White Paper

The interweb is a wonderful thing - sometimes - but this story on BBC News [http://www.bbc.co.uk/
Sep
23

Editor’s blog Thursday 23 September 2010: Total Place II: Back With A Vengeance!

Those of you with long memories may recall that we contradicted widespread rumours that Total Place was for the scrapheap
Sep
23

Editor’s blog Wednesday 22 September 2010: Fresh uncertainty over the White Paper's plans

You probably know that we've been big fans of the White Paper [http://www.healthpolicyinsight.com/?q=node/
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Sep
23

Editor’s blog Thursday 23 September 2010: AMRC, HFMA and NHS Confed on how to do quality and productivity

Autum's arrived  with a bang. With no less pyrotechnics, the latest instalment of The Maynard Doctrine finds the
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Sep
22

Editor’s blog Tuesday 21 September 2010: Public health redundancies

The report in The Guardian that the DH has started to shed public health staff [http://www.guardian.co.uk/
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Sep
20

Editor’s blog Monday 20 September 2010: NHS Confederation Policy Salon: what will happen in a liberated NHS?

The inaugural NHS Confederation policy salon of the new season took its cue from Glenn Hoddle’s mantra “I’ve
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