Mr Andy Cowper

Mr Andy Cowper

United Kingdom
Feb
19

Editorial Tuesday 19 February 2013: From the archives - NPSA reply to my 2009 FOI on Mid-Staffs incident reporting

In today's Telegraph, there is a report that PM David Cameron feels someone should take the blame for
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Feb
17

Editor's blog Tuesday November 30 2010: Public health White Paper out ahead of schedule; not worth the abbreviated wait

Healthy Lives, Healthy People [http://www.dh.gov.uk/prod_consum_dh/groups/dh_digitalassets/@dh/@en/@ps/documents/digitalasset/
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Feb
15

Editorial Friday 15 February 2013: Indirect pressure grows on Comrade Sir David

Today's BBC Radio 4 World At One interview with Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt [http://audioboo.fm/boos/1214834-jeremy-hunt-on-nhs-whistleblower-gary-walker-the-world-at-one]
1 min read
Feb
14

Editorial Thursday 14 February 2013: A Valentine for Comrade Sir David - grip, heroism and talking Bellocs

Roses are red, Stalin is too. Love the NHS? Comrade Sir David's watching you! With a romantic'
3 min read
Feb
13

Editorial Wednesday 13 February 2013: Inspectors all round! NHS culture, leadership and the psychology of military incompetence

Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt's speech to the Reform conference yesterday [http://www.healthpolicyinsight.com/?q=node/1480] was
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Feb
13

Editorial Wednesday 13 February 2013: Text of shadow health minister Liz Kendall's speech to 'The New NHS' Reform conference

Shadow health minister Liz Kendall - speech to "The New NHS' Reform conference 12 February 2013 ...................................................................... Click here
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Feb
13

Editorial Wednesday 13 February 2013: Text of SOS Jeremy Hunt's speech to the Reform 'The New NHS' conference

Courtesy of the DH website [http://mediacentre.dh.gov.uk/2013/02/12/12-february-2013-jeremy-hunt-reform-an-nhs-that-treats-people-as-individuals/] , here is the text of Health
7 min read
Feb
11

Editorial Monday 11 February 2013: Health Secretary's Commons statement on social care funding changes

From Hansard [http://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/hansard/commons/todays-commons-debates/read/unknown/361/] , today's statement in the
31 min read
Feb
10

Editorial Sunday 10 February 2013: On one of the five high-mortality trusts

The identity of one of the five high-mortality trusts whose investigations were announced in the wake of Francis [http://www.
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Feb
07

Editorial Wednesday 6 February 2013: The Francis Public Inquiry Report, and what it means

"This is not something which can be blamed simplistically on one policy or another, or on failings on the
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