In the light of the BBC’s blackout of news coverage of the NHS revolution, certain insurgents within the Corporation have been making their own programmes to cover the shortfall. Dr No was lucky enough to be given access to I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue’s NHS Special – and has kindly been given permission to publish a short extract.
Chairman Dee: NHS managers have been getting a lot of flak recently, being blamed with ruining the once efficient running of the national health service. There is talk of mass redundancies. Would any of the team like to suggest films that might appeal to hospital managers who have fallen on hard times and are stuck at home with nothing but a DVD to watch?
- Mr Schindler’s List
- One Flew Into the Cuckoo’s Nest
- Nightmare on Elm Ward
- The Targets Have Landed
- Where Matrons Dare
- All Quiet on the Western Wing
- The Doctor Vanishes
- Saving Patient Ryan
- The Last of the Medicines
- Rear Doctor
- When Eight Wards Close
- Night Nurse on Elm Street
- Star Wards V: The Manager Strikes Back
- The Silence of the Medics
- Once Upon a Time on the Wards
- Full Manager’s Jacket
- A Clockwork Doctor
- No Country for Old Medics
- Around the Ward in Eighty Seconds
- Dr Jones’s Diary
- The Wrong Arm of the Patient
- Fatal Retractor
- Up Proctoscope
- A Tale of Two Sluices
- From Whitehall With Love
- A Fistful of Doctors
- One of Our Airways is Missing
- Four Meetings and a Funeral
- Natural Born Managers
- A Few Bad Doctors
- Doctor Without a Patient
- On My Manager’s Secret Service
- Fear and Loathing in Da Wards
- The Managerial Candidate
- The Matron Returns
- The Lies of Doctors
- Crimson Tide
- Deadheart
- Doctor Dolittle
- N.H. Confidential
- Bring Me the Notes of Alfredo Garcia
Feel free to make your own suggestions…