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Apr
06
Reading the room: mood music for the battlefield of organisational change

Reading the room: mood music for the battlefield of organisational change

by Helen Buckingham One of the things that leaders learn through experience is when to pick your battles. This is
5 min read
Mar
30
Cowper’s Cut 369: The NHS vibes of Wes Streeting

Cowper’s Cut 369: The NHS vibes of Wes Streeting

I’m not sure whether Wes Streeting is familiar with the Financial Times columnist and George Osborne biographer Janan Ganesh.
11 min read
Mar
23
Cowper’s Cut 368: Recapturing the NHS with Targets And Terror (Redux)

Cowper’s Cut 368: Recapturing the NHS with Targets And Terror (Redux)

Mackey names new top team at NHSENHS England transition CEO Sir Jim Mackey has named his top team, including drafting
7 min read
Mar
16
Cowper’s Cut 367: A Farewell To Arms’ Length, as NHS England is put out of its misery

Cowper’s Cut 367: A Farewell To Arms’ Length, as NHS England is put out of its misery

“We’ll never really know if NHS independence was effective: it is impossible meaningfully to separate the performance of the
11 min read
Mar
09
Cowper’s Cut 366: Brief expectations

Cowper’s Cut 366: Brief expectations

Next boss of NHS England prepares purge of senior leadership teamExclusive: Jim Mackey plans ‘big clearout’ as he steers NHS
9 min read
Mar
02
Cowper’s Cut 365: Accentuate the positive; don’t mess with Mr In-Between!

Cowper’s Cut 365: Accentuate the positive; don’t mess with Mr In-Between!

“You’ve got to accentuate the positive Eliminate the negative Latch on to the affirmative Don’t mess with Mr
15 min read
Feb
25
Cowper’s Cut 364: The Woman In Black fades out

Cowper’s Cut 364: The Woman In Black fades out

Amanda Pritchard quits as NHS England chief executive in shock moveExclusive: Departure follows meetings with Wes Streeting and unusual criticism
2 min read
Feb
23
Cowper’s Cut 363: When all you’ve got is financial lying, everything looks like capital-to-revenue transfers

Cowper’s Cut 363: When all you’ve got is financial lying, everything looks like capital-to-revenue transfers

The Labour government highlighted their early (relative) win of getting the extra two million diagnostic tests delivered a few months
7 min read
Feb
16
Cowper’s Cut 362: The Penny officially drops in Amandaland

Cowper’s Cut 362: The Penny officially drops in Amandaland

To the considerable surprise of absolutely no readers of ‘Cowper’s Cut’, Dr Penny Dash was announced as the preferred
16 min read
Feb
09
Cowper’s Cut 361: Schrödinger’s 10 Year NHS Plan

Cowper’s Cut 361: Schrödinger’s 10 Year NHS Plan

It’s been quite the week for news about Health But Social Care Secretary Wes Streeting’s advisors. New Cavendish
7 min read