All articles by Andy Cowper – Page 6
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CommentCowper’s Cut: A brief history of NHS plans
With the release of the 10 Year Forward View imminent, Andy Cowper reflects on the success of the various NHS plans published in the last two decades and what to expect from the 10YFV
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CommentCowper’s Cut: Primary care IT is not one of the big NHS problems. Why is ’Appless ’Ancock trying to solve it?
Andy Cowper explains why the DHSC’s latest push to overhaul IT in primary care does not make sense
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CommentCowper’s Cut: That warm feeling down your back? It’s not rain
Andy Cowper discusses the government’s recently released Brexit operational readiness guidance for the health and care system in England
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CommentCowper’s Cut: Will the 10-year NHS plan give us magical realism or socialist realism?
With the publication of the NHS 10-Year Forward View postponed, Andy Cowper says the 10YFV could operate in two very different genres of realism
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CommentCowper’s Cut: Taking back control of the NHS? Ahem
Seeking the legislative power to direct foundation trusts, both NHS Improvement and England want to move back to more centralisation and control, notes Andy Cowper
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CommentCowper’s Cut: Does ‘Appless ‘Ancock’s shrilling contravene the Ministerial Code?
Andy Cowper on the health and social care secretary endorsing an individual player in the online GP consultations market on multiple occasions
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CommentCowper’s Cut: Brownian Motion and Johnsonian home economics
With the re-announcement of money for the NHS, the health service faces a very real risk of raised expectations and a budget increase too low to deliver on them. By Andy Cowper
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CommentCowper’s Cut: Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated?
The ongoing Brexit muddle seems like the rerun of another law, the Health and Social Care Act 2012, being passed with a proposed aim but failing to materialise in any worthwhile form, says Andy Cowper
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CommentCowper’s Cut: Health policy and politics – caffeinated or decaffeinated?
Andy Cowper discusses Brexit and what the two political parties think on health policy
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CommentCowper’s Cut: The magic sofa fallacy
Andy Cowper gives the lowdown on the recently announced Budget and where did the extra NHS money in the Budget come from
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CommentCowper’s Cut: Budget? Fudge it.
Andy Cowper on how a philosophical quandary faces the Chancellor as he presents the Budget
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CommentCowper’s Cut: Planning permission
Andy Cowper says the NHS has seen a lot of making of plans over the years and requires the permission of the system being changed to properly implement them
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CommentCowper’s Cut: Grasping the nettles
The NHS leadership doesn’t seem ready to openly discuss the problems besetting the NHS, especially the workforce crisis, let alone seek meaningful solutions, notes Andy Cowper
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CommentCowper’s Cut: The ability to count
The chancellor’s recent speech with incorrect numbers about the funding boost to the NHS damages public perception at a time when trust in politics is low, says Andy Cowper
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CommentCowper’s Cut: Shifting the tech-tonic plates
The new health secretary’s belief that technology will act as a panacea to the NHS’s numerous problems is worrying, says Andy Cowper
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CommentCowper’s Cut: The NHS needs to prepare for a ‘no deal’ Brexit, and so for no more money
Andy Cowper discusses the possible consequences of a likely “no deal” Brexit for the NHS
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CommentCowper’s Cut: On language
Andy Cowper ponders on the language used by NHS managers and policy makers and how it can frustrate outsiders and even clinicians and make matters worse
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CommentCowper's Cut: The NHS has Bonnie Tyler Syndrome
Andy Cowper highlights the many very real problems that beset the NHS
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CommentCowper’s Cut: On dismantling fences
The current state of the NHS is analogous to a rotting, heavily broken fence, for which some heavy duty wirecutters are needed, says Andy Cowper
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CommentCowper’s Cut: On nearly dismantling fences
Andy Cowper gives the lowdown on the interesting, the inane and the insane in the NHS in the past week