Mr Andy Cowper

Mr Andy Cowper

United Kingdom
Feb
16

Editorial Thursday 20 June 2013: CQC releases names of the four at the table for Morecambe Bay cover-up report deletion

Health Service Journal has the CQC's letter to Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt naming the four senior CQC staff
2 min read
Jan
31

Editorial Tuesday 15 October 2013: Hunt and Burnham dance to The Masochism Tango

‘Beat me!’ begged the masochist. ‘No’, replied the sadist. Longstanding readers may recall my observation that health policy is BDSM
4 min read
Jan
30

Editorial Thursday 29 January 2015: The future of tariff, the Corinthian spirit and the NHS as a political football

First, the good news: the 2014 British Social Attitudes survey found that satisfaction with the NHS has resumed its upwards
6 min read
Jan
28

Editorial Wednesday 28 January 2015: Text of NHS England's major incidence guidance

Here follows the short version of the text of NHS England West Midlands local area team's major incident
11 min read
Jan
22

Editorial Wednesday 21 January 2015: NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens interview

Simon Stevens interview – Health Policy Insight, January 2015 Interview by Andy Cowper Health Policy Insight: No healthcare system has yet
10 min read
Jan
11

Editorial Friday 9 January 2015: Circling the plughole ends, as the Hinchingbrooke contract goes down the drain

To the enormous surprise of absolutely no-one with a hint of knowledge of what's happening in the NHS,
3 min read
Jan
09

Editorial 6 June 2008: Franchising management (again) for failing trusts…

except it’s not franchising and we don’t know what they mean by ‘failing’. Unsuccessful 2001 policy re-announced in
1 min read
Jan
05

The Maynard Doctrine: Memo for Simon ‘Sir Galahad’ Stevens: a message from Merlin

Dear Sir Galahad, Your noble intentions in pursuing the Holy Grail of increased productivity in the NHS have been noted.
4 min read
Dec
19

Editorial Friday 19 December 2014: Thoughts on A&E pressure from 2006

In 2006, I wrote up a conference report of an event on urgent and emergency care for my friend Rick
6 min read
Dec
10

The Maynard Doctrine: whither foundation trusts?

by Alan Maynard, professor of health economics, University of York Ninety-nine NHS organisations now have Foundation Trust (FT) status. Most
3 min read