Mr Andy Cowper

Mr Andy Cowper

United Kingdom
Jul
02

Editor's blog Thursday 30 June 2011: The ten Tweets of NHS reform

The micro-blogging website Twitter [http://www.twitter.com], where I am to be found  as @HPIAndyCowper, is proving itself a
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Jul
01

Editor's blog Friday 1 July 2011: Health Policy Intelligence 14 Forward, the information-light brigade! In praise of Simon Burns

Health Policy Intelligence is our weekly subscription-based analysis service. The fourteenth issue, 'Forward, the information-light brigade! Let us now
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Jul
01

The Maynard Doctrine: Time to plug data and analytical gaps?

Professor Alan Maynard on data use, incentives, PROMs, private sector HES and a 1974 Burlington. The reformed NHS has some
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Jun
30

Editor's blog Monday 27 June 2011: The Health And Social Care Bill has jumped the shark

The gift of prophecy isn’t what it used to be. When I composed ‘The Simon Burns 4 SOS Campaign
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Jun
29

Editor's blog Wednesday 29 June 2011: Recommitted Health Bill: key quotes from the 21st century Dada

Words cannot do justice to the sheer surrealism of the recommitted Health Bill committee  evidence session yesterday. Fortunately, the wonderful
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Jun
29

Editor's blog Wednesday 29 June 2011: Health Policy Intelligence 13, 'The hair apparent', now out

Health Policy Intelligence is our weekly subscription-based analysis service. The thirteenth issue, 'The hair apparent: Health Bill amendments eschew
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Jun
29

Editor's blog Wednesday 29 June 2011: Information poverty - the NHS's abiding sin

I attended an interesting session this morning thanks to Ipsos MORI, with input from a respected former health secretary. (Chatham
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Jun
29

Editor's blog Tuesday 28 June 2011: A personal view on why NHS Alliance are not stooges

I'm a big fan of The Stooges, as in Iggy Pop's erstwhile band [http://en.wikipedia.
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Jun
23

Editor's blog Thursday 23 June 2011: Health Bill amendments seek to piss down our backs and then tell us it's raining

The government's Health And Social Care Bill will be recommitted to the Commons on Tuesday, and they have
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Jun
23

Editor's blog Monday 20 June 2011: EXCLUSIVE PM Cameron misled House of Commons; he met and heard Mark Britnell on NHS funding

A Health Policy Insight exclusive by Andy Cowper Freedom Of Information research by Health Policy Insight reveals that Prime Minister
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