Mr Andy Cowper

Mr Andy Cowper

United Kingdom
Feb
09

Editor's blog Tuesday 9th February 2010: Poly, put the kettle on

A good story here from Pulse [http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=35&storycode=4124947&c=
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Feb
09

Editor's blog Thursday 4th February 2010: Get hassling your out-of-hours provider

Here you go [http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publicationsandstatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/DH_111892] . It looks as if James Meikle
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Feb
09

Editor's blog Tuesday 9th February 2010: Variation of supply and cost – higher quality with fewer resources

The NHS Confederation’s impressive policy salon series launched itself into 2010 with gusto: its January iteration looking at the
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Feb
09

Editor's blog Tuesday 9th February 2010: The politics of promises

So on Sunday Gordon Brown told The Observer what he was going to say in his Kings Fund speech yesterday
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Feb
04

Editor's blog Thursday 4th February 2010: Health spokesfolk Parliament room bookings

The ubiquitous Guido Fawkes [http://order-order.com/] has posted the address of the Parliamentary online listing of what rooms MPs
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Feb
04

Editor’s blog Thursday 4th February 2010: Lib Dem health policy

Good morning. Today's sermon will be from the launch of the new document by Norman Lamb MP, Lib
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Feb
03

Editor’s blog Monday 12 October 2009: Cameron Conservatism, the NHS and big government

“The NHS is safe with us” was the infamous line of Margaret Thatcher’s, in response to the leaking of
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Feb
03

Editor's blog Wednesday 3rd February 2010: A whistleblower vindicated

The general experience of whistleblowers in the NHS is best encapsulated by Thomas Hobbes [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_
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Feb
02

Editor's blog Tuesday 2nd February 2010: Two unsurprises

A couple of unsurprises: The Lancet has at last formally retracted the Wakefield MMR paper. Which is good news. Having
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Feb
02

Editor's blog Tuesday 2nd February 2010: Out-of-hours report leaked; National Care Service revisited

In today's Guardian, James Meikle has got the inside track on the DH report on out-of-hours services [http:
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