All articles by Andy Cowper – Page 9
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CommentCowper’s Cut: ‘The Tragedy Of The Commons’ meets ‘Only Connect’
With things looking quite dark in the NHS, we can only hope that the forthcoming Budget will improve the situation even as we try to put a quart of healthcare demand into a pint pot of healthcare resource, says Andy Cowper
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CommentCowper’s Cut: The big machine or the ecosystem?
NHS bosses are using loopholes in law to slowly transform the NHS from an ecosystem into a big machine, which could lead to unintended consequences, notes Andy Cowper
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CommentCowper’s Cut: The brown stuff and the bulletproof
Once nobody in NHS management is bulletproof anymore, everybody in NHS management is bulletproof. By Andy Cowper
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CommentCowper's Cut: Productivity and pressure
With Jeremy Hunt saying that future pay rises might be partly linked to productivity improvements, Andy Cowper points out that measuring productivity in healthcare is hard, even as the pressure increases cheating instances
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CommentCowper’s Cut: Why the MBA method to NHS reform may fail
Andy Cowper on how management by admonishment is not a good idea in the case of the NHS
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CommentCowper's Cut – Now is the autumn of our discontent
With the budget approaching, austerity still biting and the deficit not shifting, the NHS is not the only institution fearing a tough end to the year
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CommentCowper’s Cut – On the NHS reaching Peak David Brent
The recent antics of a regional leader showing that the NHS has reached peak David Brent, it’s hard not to conclude that the NHS needs a chief anthropologist more than it needs a chief inspector, says Andy Cowper
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CommentCowper’s Cut: Jeremy Hunt’s futile gesture
What will the resignation of two chief executives last week actually achieve, asks Andy Cowper
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CommentCowper’s Cut – complexity for dummies
Complexity is not going away, especially in public policy and in healthcare – but can our leaders explain it to their audience, asks Andy Cowper
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CommentCowper’s Cut: The Inverse Scare Law – helping politicians ignore the NHS
Andy Cowper on what he calls ’the Campaign for NHS defunding
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CommentCowper's Cut: A Brief History Of The Force, by Jeremy Hunt
Jeremy Hunt, Darth Health Secretary, explains how he must use The Force to vanquish any leaders who oppose The Empire. By Andy Cowper
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CommentCowper’s Cut: The way out
The job of an NHS chief executive is a political job – so too is the departure from that job. Andy Cowper on the exit of two high profile NHS managers
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CommentCowper’s Cut: On winning and losing the economic narrative
Andy Cowper draws a parallel between the decade long global financial crisis and the NHS’s own struggles
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CommentCowper’s Cut: Days Of Wine And Metaphors
Chambertin, Riesling, Muscadet et al – Andy Cowper puts NHS leaders through a wine test
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CommentCowper's Cut: Private lessons
Disgruntled staff, non-appearing test results and a consultant with a world-class attitude problem – Andy Cowper tells a true story with a sting in the tail
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CommentCowper's Cut: The Monday morning wake-up call
A Platonic dialogue between a health secretary and a chief executive with performance problems.
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CommentCowper’s Cut: The alpha and omega of NHS culture
‘Non-blame culture’ and misleading stereotypes must be confined to the dustbin if the health service is to take great strides forward, says Andy Cowper
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CommentCowper’s Cut: The abolition and reinvention of planning
Cowper’s Cut is a new weekly column from HSJ’s comment editor Andy Cowper. It will be published every Monday and seeks to serve as an informative and entertaining stimulant for HSJ’s subscribers at the start of the working week.
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CommentCowper’s Cut: Brexit – clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right: stuck in the middle with EU
Cowper’s Cut is a new weekly column from HSJ’s comment editor Andy Cowper. It will be published every Monday and seeks to serve as an informative and entertaining stimulant for HSJ’s subscribers at the start of the working week.
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CommentCowper’s Cut: The how, why and when of raising NHS pay
Cowper’s Cut is a new weekly column from HSJ’s comment editor Andy Cowper. It will be published every Monday and seeks to serve as an informative and entertaining stimulant for HSJ’s subscribers at the start of the working week.