Andy Cowper: An Act for NHS reform, but an argument over the bill for social care In his first column for CSW, health policy expert Andy Cowper reviews Simon Stevens’s Whitehall legacy, and considers the changes being wrought by the new round of health reforms the NHS boss authored Simon Stevens Photo: Alamy 19 May 2021 It’s a pleasure to start a new regular column on health and care issues for CSW. Health policy is possibly the most high-profile area of government spending, and this isn’t surprising – the NHS is the one public service that we can all imagine ourselves needing to use in the future.