DR PHIL HAMMOND:
HAPPY BIRTHDAY NHS?
AUTUMN 2018 UK TOUR
14TH SEPTEMBER – 7TH DECEMBER 2018
The NHS turned 70 this year, but will she make it to 100? A decade of austerity with a Brexit cherry on top has brought her to her knees. Dr Phil charts the course of Nye Bevan’s beautiful baby from 1948 to as long as she lasts. Come cheer the heroes, boo the villains, and devise your own plan to save the NHS using only broccoli, ideas, and comedy. What could possibly go wrong?
Celebrate 70 years of the NHS and rebuild it to your liking… Join Dr Phil Hammond, NHS doctor and acclaimed BBC broadcaster as he explains the history of the NHS and invites his audiences to come up with suggestions on how to improve it. He’ll debate, add his own ideas, and cast votes, until eventually the audience is left with The People’s Plan which he guarantees will make more sense than anything that comes out of the government. It’s your NHS, apparently, so it’s time you sorted it out.
Dr Hammond recently announced his endorsement from the National Health Action Party as a Prospective Parliamentary Candidate at the next general election for his home constituency of North East Somerset (sitting MP Jacob Rees-Mogg).
He explains:
“I have promised to give this my best shot. My philosophy is that ‘health for all’ should be the political consideration and ambition that overrides all others. Without health – our freedom to live a life that we have reason to value – then life itself seems pretty pointless. And politicians should relentlessly focus on adding value to all our lives rather than settling their petty personal rivalries.”
About Dr Phil Hammond:
Phil Hammond was an NHS GP for twenty years, having worked in areas from sexual health to a specialist NHS team for young people with chronic fatigue. As a Private Eye journalist, he broke the story of the Bristol heart scandal in 1992, gave evidence to the public inquiry and was shortlisted for the Martha Gelhorn Prize for investigative journalism for his Private Eye special report on the shocking treatment of NHS whistle-blowers – Shoot the Messenger (2012).
He first appeared at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1990 as half of the junior doctor double-act Struck Off and Die, with Tony Gardner. Phil has been an outspoken supporter of junior doctors in their current dispute with the English government and has supported a High Court challenge to determine the legality of Jeremy Hunt’s power to impose a contract against their wishes. Phil is author of ‘Staying Alive, How to Get the Best from the NHS’ and ‘Sex, Sleep or Scrabble?’. He has appeared on Have I Got News for You, The News Quiz, The Now Show and Question Time.
What the press have said about Dr Phil Hammond:
‘If Dr Phil were a medicine, you should swig him by the litre’ ★★★★ The Times
‘Consistently funny’ ★★★★★ The Sunday Telegraph
‘One of the most entertainingly subversive people on the planet’ The Guardian
‘Hugely enjoyable, well crafted, poignant stand up’ ★★★★ Broadway Baby
‘You’ll never see a doctor in quite the same way again’ ★★★★★ The Scotsman
TOUR DATES
Friday 14th September Wiltshire: Music Centre
www.wiltshiremusic.org.uk / 01225 860 100
Saturday 15th September Clevedon: The Curzon
www.curzon.org.uk / 01275 871 000
Wednesday 19th September Bromsgrove: Artrix
www.artrix.co.uk / 01527 577330
Sunday 23rd September Newcastle: Stand
www.thestand.co.uk / 0191 300 9700
Monday 24th September Glasgow: Stand
www.thestand.co.uk / 0141 212 3389
Tuesday 25th September Edinburgh: Stand
www.thestand.co.uk / 0131 558 7272
Thursday 4th October Maidenhead: Norden Farm
www.norden.farm / 01628 788997
Wednesday 10th October Belfast: The MAC
www.themaclive.com / 028 9023 5053
Wednesday 17th October Lincoln: Drill Hall
www.lincolndrillhall.com / 01522 873894
Thursday 25th October Carmarthen: Lyric Theatre
www.theatrausirgar.co.uk/en / 0845 2263510
Friday 26th October Worcester: Huntingdon Hall
www.worcesterlive.co.uk / 01905 611 427
Monday 29th October Nottingham: Lakeside Arts
www.lakesidearts.org.uk / 0115 846 7777
Tuesday 30th October Nottingham: Lakeside Arts
www.lakesidearts.org.uk / 0115 846 7777
Saturday 6th November Twickenham: The Exchange
www.exchangetwickenham.co.uk / 020 8240 2399
Tuesday 13th November Bury St Edmunds: Theatre Royal
www.theatreroyal.org / 01284 769505
Saturday 17th November Abergavenny: Borough Theatre
www.boroughtheatreabergavenny.co.uk / 01873 850805
Sunday 18th November Bristol: Redgrave Theatre
www.redgravetheatre.com / 0117 3157 800
Wednesday 21st November Ceredigion: Theatr Mwldan
www.mwldan.co.uk / 01239 621200
Thursday 22nd November Builth Wells: Wyeside Arts Centre
www.wyeside.co.uk / 01982 552 555
Friday 7th December Winchester: Theatre Royal
www.theatreroyalwinchester.co.uk / 01962 840 440
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