Mr Andy Cowper

Mr Andy Cowper

United Kingdom
Apr
15

Editor’s blog Thurday 15 April 2010: Entrepreneurialism in the stockbroker belt backfires

Congratulations to Health Service Journal's Sally Gainsbury, whose follow-up to her scoop on the Royal Surrey selling drugs
Apr
14

Editor’s blog Friday 25 March 2010: “Mirror, mirror on the wall” time for pro- and anti-market camps

Let’s dance! They System Management honchos at the dear old Department fo Health have finally issued the Principles and
5 min read
Apr
13

Editor’s blog Tuesday 13 April 2010: Back tomorrow

It is late. I am knackered. Back properly tomrrow, but just one thought. Both major parties launched their manifestos in
Apr
08

Editor’s blog Tuesday 30 March 2010: Assessing commissioning, and funding the National Care Service

Commissioning has worked so brilliantly that the top management of the DH couldn’t even tell you what it costs.
4 min read
Apr
05

The Maynard Doctrine: Professions, guilds and silos

Professor Alan Maynard OBE torches a Spaghetti Junction of bridges with the professions. The RCN in particular will be very
3 min read
Apr
05

Editor's blog Monday 5 April 2010: Conservatives' new cancer drug proposals attract more attention

Wheeeeeeee! The claim and counter-claim merry-go-round of NHS politics is gathering momentum. (Pre-electoral tension, innit?) You may have seen that
1 min read
Apr
03

Editor's blog Saturday 3 April 2010: Conservatives shoot selves in foot over credibility of independent NHS plan

So. Does this story about the Conservatives wanting NICE to approve more cancer drugs [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/
1 min read
Apr
03

Editor’s blog Monday 22 March 2010: US reforms; Blairites rumbled; NPfIT in bits; and Tories to keep everything open

They’ve done it [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8579322.stm]. It’s watered-down, and not
3 min read
Apr
01

Editor's blog Thursday 1 April 2010: Mildly amusing Grauniad AFD spoof

This Grauniad spoof [http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/apr/01/labour-gordon-brown-hard-man] for April Fool's Day raised
Mar
31

Editor's blog Wednesday 31 March 2010: NHS Connecting For Health unplugged?

Hi. No time at all to write summat proper today, but the significant newsflash is that it seems like it
1 min read