The National Health (1973)

Directors

Jack Gold

Cast

Colin Blakely, Donald Sinden, Eleanor Bron, Jim Dale, Lynn Redgrave

The story

The film satirically interweaves the story of a depressing and poorly-equipped National Health Service hospital with a fantasy hospital which exists in a soap-opera world where all the equipment is new and patients are miraculously cured – although the only "patients" seen are doctors or nurses who are themselves part of the soap opera plots. In the real hospital, the patients die while the out-of-touch administrators focus on impressing foreign visitors.

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