Cowper’s Cut 384: The One After The NHS Ten-Year Plan Dropped
Reactions to the NHS Ten-Year Plan might best be described as studiedly polite from organisations who have or want contracts
Cowper’s Cut 383: The specious hallucination of the NHS Ten-Year Plan
If as a government, you wanted to substantially lower expectations for your NHS Ten-Year Plan, then you might arrange for
Cowper’s Cut 382: Some questions for successful NHS reform
At the launch of the Big NHS Plan, the Prime Minster warns the nation that “our ambitions for the future
Cowper’s Cut 381: The NHS Ten-Year Plan and Mrs Doyle’s ‘cup of tea’ paradox
I haven’t been chasing down every riddle or rumour about what’s in The 3:7 Forward View (AKA
Cowper’s Cut 380: Will Taylorism do?
We can too easily forget people’s contributions to the English NHS and health system. One of the first people
Cowper’s Cut 379: In office, but not in power as the NHS drinks on in The World’s Biggest Last Chance Saloon
English health policy and politics of the Conservative governments 2010-24 is best understood in its three distinct eras:
1. The
Cowper’s Cut 378: Management by improvisation
I wanted to give the new regime at what was once NHS England (and before that, the NHS Commissioning Board)
Cowper’s Cut 377: Narrative drift and fortune cookies
Almost everything
I write these columns on the presumed basis that we, as a society, want effective public policy to
Cowper’s Cut 376: Living in “really retail” times with The 3:7 Forward View
It seems that the NHS in England will not undergo ‘Kibasification’, after all.
Ministers push to improve draft 10-year plan
Cowper’s Cut 375: Wake the dead
First came Health But Social Care Secretary Wes Streeting’s official announcement on taking office last year that “the NHS
