Mr Andy Cowper

Mr Andy Cowper

United Kingdom
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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Sep
20

Editor’s blog Monday 20 September 2010: Deputy PM Clegg's masochism strategy

You know the old gag about the masochist and the sadist. Yes, you do. 'Beat me', begs the
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Sep
20

Editor’s blog Monday 20 September 2010: Sorting out the problem of NHS staff out-earning the Prime Minister

Tonight's BBC Panorama investigation, in collaboration with the Bureau For Investigative Journalism, has revealed that people who work
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Sep
19

Guest editorial Sunday 19 September 2010: Matthew Swindells on the future of the National Programme for IT

Professor Matthew Swindells, health chair of the British Computer Society, former DH chief information officer and soon to start work
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Sep
19

Editor’s blog Friday 17 September 2010: Lansley on GP commissioning consortia: bureaucracy, inherited debt, NHS pensions

Good evening. You may have already seen the new instalment of Maynard Doctrine [”http://www.healthpolicyinsight.com/?q=node/738]
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Sep
19

Editor’s blog Sunday 19 September 2010: Closing down The Ministry

Today's Observerdepicts a bleak-looking future for Jamie Oliver's Ministry Of Food project in Rotherham [http://www.
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Sep
17

The Maynard Doctrine:: The irrelevance of NHS structural reform

In all healthcare systems, politicians continually strive for the Holy Grail of system improvement. This goal breaks down into three
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Sep
16

Editor’s blog Thursday 16 September 2010: The Proms are over: long live PROMs

The Proms [http://www.bbc.co.uk/proms/2010/] - the Promenade Concerts - are one of the UK'
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Sep
16

Guest editorial Thurssday 16 September 2010: The strange case of the Bristol Histopathology Mystery

Editor’s note: - Today’s guest editorial is by Daphne Havercroft, who has been campaigning to ensure that the
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