Cowper’s Cut 419: You mean people don’t like having their jobs abolished incompetently and without any real plan?
It doesn’t seem remarkable that the Health Foundation’s newly-released interviews with integrated care system leaders found a
Cowper’s Cut 418: Culture wars
The politics and policy of the NHS in England may not actually be dead, but they do seem quite dead-
Cowper’s Cut 417: Inertia reel
The interim report of the ‘Independent Investigation into Maternity and Neonatal Services in England’ chaired by Labour peer Baroness Valerie
Cowper’s Cut 416: Greige Expectations and Stuck Record Syndrome
The past couple of months of more or less uninterrupted rain and lack of sun has amounted to greige weather.
Cowper’s Cut 415: “Mutual consent”
In the light of this past week’s events, I’m reasonably content with how my political analysis in last
Cowper’s Cut 413: Mandygate
This week’s revelations of Lord Peter Mandelson of Foy’s continued, close and corrupt relationship with financier-paedophile Jeffrey
Cowper’s Cut 412: Letting down the Treasury Munchkins is a niche move
Dave West of Health Service Journal has this cracking exclusive about a secret funding deal between HM Treasury and the
Cowper’s Cut 411: “I don’t think we’re centralising at all!”
After 26 years of writing about the politics, policy and management of the English NHS, I’m surprised that I
Cowper’s Cut 410: The age of miracles
“This excuses culture does the centre-left no favours. If we tell the public that we can’t make anything
Cowper’s Cut 409: People who need people
The appointment of Danny Mortimer as the Department For Health But Social Care’s and NHS England’s new director-
