Mr Andy Cowper

Mr Andy Cowper

United Kingdom
Jan
24

Editorial Thursday 19 January 2012: The great ratings agency fiasco

The Guardian splashes this morning on the proposals by Monitor to allow credit ratings agencies to assess the financial viability
4 min read
Jan
16

Editorial Monday 16 January 2012: The sharp end of healthcare

A friend of my wife's and mine is in intensive care in a London hospital, at the sharp
1 min read
Jan
16

Editor's blog 19th January 2009: Unhappy about Blue Monday, and personal budgets deferred

I am officially not happy about Blue Monday. Not the New Order song [http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=niCfmQajoh0&
3 min read
Jan
03

The Maynard Doctrine: Clinical practice variations and improving NHS productivity: mirages or realities?

Health Policy Insight, 3 January 2012 Health economist Professor Alan Maynard has spent much of his career highlighting the differences
8 min read
Jan
02

Editorial 31 December 2011: The Curious Incident Of The Debate That Didn't Move On

So. If we were going to have a debate about priorities in the healthcare landscape, it might be a timely
1 min read
Dec
24

Editorial 24 December 2011: Health Policy Intelligence 36 "Be jolly, bottom-up style" Comrade Sir David tells NHS

Would you like to know what God's Christmas message to Andrew Lansley is? Why Mr Lansley (saviour, liberator)
2 min read
Dec
24

Editorial Tuesday 20 December 2011: No taste for accounting? Lords Constitution Committee report updated

The House Of Lords Constitution Committee's updated report on the Health And Social Care Bill [http://www.publications.
3 min read
Dec
24

Editorial Thursday 22 December 2011: Adam Smith, GOD, risk and failure in the Nicholson Health Service

A fascinating article by GOD - Sir Gus O'Donnell, outgoing head of the civil service, appears in today&
6 min read
Dec
24

Editorial Friday 23 December 2011: Lead your CCG!

A good friend of Health Policy Insight sent through this text of an advert for CCG leaders. ...................................................................... Click here for
1 min read
Dec
24

Editorial Friday 23 December 2011: Goodwill to all men? Not from BMI to BUPA

Goodwill to all men? Ahem. Not from private provider BMI to insurer BUPA, as the following letter sent yesterday from
3 min read