Mr Andy Cowper

Mr Andy Cowper

United Kingdom
Apr
01

Editorial Monday 31 March 2014: Some thoughts for NHS England CE Simon Stevens

NHS England has been run by a former Communist, and from today it is run by a former Labour councillor.
4 min read
Mar
30

Simon Stevens 2011 Health Policy Insight interview - Making sense of the NHS reforms

Simon Stevens (now incoming chief executive of NHS England as of October 2013) was at the time of this interview
6 min read
Mar
28

The Maynard Doctrine: Table manners at the healthcare feast - advice for Simon Stevens

TOP SECRET Briefing from Professor Nala Dranyam, Kroy University, People’s Republic of Yorkshire to the incoming Chief Executive of
5 min read
Feb
24

The Maynard Doctrine: Health policy delusions, supply-induced demand and sanity deficits

Health economist Professor Alan Maynard outlines the sanity deficits and supply-induced demand risks in current policy trends Current NHS policy
4 min read
Feb
22

Editorial Thursday 20 February 2014: Will Care.Data Lansleyism prefigure reconfiguration conflagration?

Is it too late to coin the phrase ‘Lansleyism’? It’s not? OK, then: the Care.Data fiasco [”http://www.
2 min read
Feb
11

Editorial Tuesday 11 February 2014: How is a CSU commercially confidential, Earl Howe?

Now here is An Interesting Things [http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld201314/ldhansrd/text/140206w0001.htm] , brought to my
1 min read
Feb
05

Editor’s blog Wednesday 18 May 2011: It’s the economic regulator, stupid

The battle for the credit for ‘saving the NHS reform’ resumes, in the wake of Prime Minister David ‘Shabba’ Cameron’
4 min read
Feb
04

Editorial Monday 3 February 2014: Independent regulators, the SPESCious Awards, and spoofing Mark Britnell

I appointed myself as NHS Chief Inspector Of Chief Inspectors [”https://twitter.com/HPIAndyCowper] last year, in the wake of
Feb
04

Editorial Tuesday 4 February 2014: Why privatising the NHS would be A Very Bad Idea

The Twittering Classes were fascinated to notice that NHS England's outgoing chief executive, Comrade Sir David Nicholson had
4 min read
Feb
03

Editorial Thursday 24 January 2013: Ten thoughts about Andy Burnham's Labour health policy review speech

In the wholly spurious interests of binary 'balance', here are five snarky observations about shadow health secretary and
3 min read