Cowper’s Cut 443: Upcoming themes
’Cut’ readers are aware of (and I believe, value) the fact that when a fairly inconsequential week in English health
Cowper’s Cut 442: Is the English NHS poorly managed?
I’ve been wondering for some time now about the median level of quality of management in the English NHS.
Cowper’s Cut 441: On the three broken psychological contracts and the many unresolved tensions affecting the English NHS
I’m sort of on holiday at the moment: instead of a column this week (and since there have been
Cowper’s Cut 440: “And would you like cuttings of long grass with your adult social care reform?”
Adult social care’s Bank of England 1997 independence moment, that was not.
PM and Mascara Kid Andy Burnham’s
Cowper’s Cut 439: Make NHS decentralisation grate again
There is no point in wasting any of our time together analysing various speculative articles in the national media (particularly
Cowper’s Cut 438: Yvette Cooper is the new Secretary Of State For Health But Social Care
Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley Labour MP Yvette Cooper has been moved from Home Secretary (one of the Four Great Offices
Cowper’s Cut 437: Devolutionary new PM Andy Burnham arrives to a centralising NHS Bill. Will the price be a 2026 Croydon List?
The Mascoronation has been and gone.
On Friday, new MP for Makerfield, The Mascara Kid Andy Burnham was elected unopposed
Cowper’s Cut 436: When is abolishing NHS England not abolishing NHS England?
Quite a few ‘Cut’ readers already know what I’m about to describe, but it remains worth setting it down
Cowper’s Cut 435: Centralisation, centralisation, centralisation
Every era of NHS leadership probably feels that it needs a slogan. Some have several: Simon Stevens had ‘thinking like
Cowper’s Cut 434: As the PLP’s Mascoronation of Andy Burnham approaches, a new Ockenden Report drops - but the Penny hasn’t dropped about who actually uses the NHS
Time is even more of an abstract concept during a heatwave, isn’t it?
The Second Coming of Andy Burnham
