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Nov
30

Editorial 30 November 2020: Cowper's Cut 138 - Pretty vacant (part two)

Owing to constraints of space and time, this material written for my weekly column for Health Service Journal [https://www.
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Nov
02

Editorial Thursday 27 June 2016: Heidi Alexander on the John McDonnell clandestine advisory group

There has been lively discussion on social media about HPI's recent stories about the McDonnell Policy review [http:
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Mar
30

Editorial Thursday 2 March 2017: The War On Reality, the end of the market and smoking dope on a burning platform

The War On Reality is nothing new. George Orwell previewed it in 1984 [”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four]
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Mar
20

Guest editorial Friday 20 March 2020: Stupid-19: the new global threat that doctors won’t tell you about

EDITOR'S NOTE: Occasionally, I get sent pieces good enough to be worth including here: this is one such.
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Feb
28

Editorial Friday 28 February 2020: Weather and friction

I’m grateful to a friend for giving me the insight below into Dominic Cummings, the special advisor to Prime
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Dec
11

Editorial Wednesday 11 December 2019: At the eleventh hour and fifty-ninth minute, some Labour health policy

This is quite interesting. Labour's shadow health secretary Jonathan Ashworth has finally given Health Service Journal an interview
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Dec
05

Editorial Wednesday 4 December 2019: The main parties' manifestos on health and care

Being asked to choose a Prime Minister between Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn is like being asked whether you'
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Jun
20

Editorial Thursday 20 June 2019: Executive tendencies

Baroness Harding is the highly executive and very vocal chair of NHS Improvement. She is saying many of the right
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Dec
20

Editorial Wednesday 19 December 2018: The eyes have it - Matt Hancock, fridge magnate, and The Fear

I don’t lightly encourage people to watch interviews with ‘Appless Matt ‘Ancock, Secretary Of State For The Time Being.
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Sep
20

Editorial Thursday 20 September 2018: Towards integrated tech enthusiasm with Matt Hancock

[AUTHOR’S NOTE – Health Policy Insight's been on a hiatus for a while because, well, life. This column
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