Mr Andy Cowper

Mr Andy Cowper

United Kingdom
May
04

Editor's blog Wednesday 4 May 2011: The full glory of the listening exercise

There was great interest in the Future Forum's 119 listening events yesterday. Various Twitter health policy people started
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May
03

Editor's blog Tuesday 3 May 2011: Permanent secretaries bet on the impermanence of Mr Lansley at health

I'm not sure whether Health Policy Insight was the first to predict that Secretary Of State For The
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May
03

Editor's blog Tuesday 3 May 2011: New NHS advisory panel for PM Cameron. "Taxi for Mr Lansley ..."

Health Service Journal's Dave West reveals that Number 10 policy advisor Paul Bate [http://www.healthpolicyinsight.com/?q=
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May
03

Editor's blog Tuesday 3 May 2011: Life on Marr's - PM Cameron on the NHS reform pause

So. That was a good holiday-type break for finance directors in foundation trusts, whose frantic applications for new jobs prompted
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Apr
29

Editor's blog Friday 29 April 2011: Health Policy Intelligence 5, 'Cameron the Winner; Lansley the Magnificent', out now

Health Policy Intelligence is our new, weekly subscription-based analysis service. The fifth issue, 'Cameron the Winner; Lansley the Magnificent&
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Apr
29

Editor's blog Friday 29 April 2011: Monitor letter means planning for an even tighter future

Copied below is the text of the Monitor letter to FTs and aspiring FTs (i.e.  every provider) [http://bit.
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Apr
29

Editor's blog Thursday 28 April 2011: The past few days and the future of Andrew 'Transport' Lansley The Magnificent

And there I was hoping for a quiet few days in healthpolicyland. Will I never learn? (No, probably not.) Tuesday
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Apr
23

Editor's blog Saturday 23 April 2011: Simon Stevens interview on the NHS reforms

Simon Stevens interview - Making sense of the NHS reforms? Simon Stevens is President, Global Health, at UnitedHealth Group  and
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Apr
22

Editor's blog Friday 22 April 2011: Health Policy Intelligence 4, 'Not even ‘Minder’ Letwin can save The Liberator', out now

Health Policy Intelligence is our new, weekly subscription-based analysis service. The fourth issue, 'Not even ‘Minder’ Letwin can save
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Apr
22

Editor's blog Wednesday 20 April 2011: Kings Fund launches quarterly NHS performance review

The first thing to say about How is the NHS performing? Quarterly monitoring report [”http://www.kingsfund.org.uk/document.
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