Polyoaks

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NHS satire by Dr Phil Hammond and David Spicer

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David Westhead

Simon Greenall

Polly Frame

Nigel Planer

Annette Crosbie

Margaret Cabourn-Smith

Caroline Rodgers

Phil Hammond

David Spicer

Frank Stirling

Polyoaks: Series 4: Hello, Goodbye

Hello, Goodbye

Series 4

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Polyoaks, Series 4, Hello, Goodbye

Annette Crosbie guest stars in the biting satire on National Health GPs.

The surgery is to become a ‘vanguard’ for the NHS ‘Five Year Forward View’. Stars Nigel Planer and Annette Crosbie. From 2016.

Annette Crosbie guest stars in this episode on end of life care.  Polyoaks is to become a ‘vanguard’ site as part of the NHS ‘Five Year Forward View’.  Best intentions are subverted by one older service user’s views on so-called elderly care.

The Polyoaks surgery is plagued by strikes, endless new management initiatives, staff shortages, militant patients, eight day weeks, privatisation – and all these things are entirely their fault, apparently.

The dysfunctional Bristol surgery run by warring doctors, brothers Roy and Hugh Thornton alternates between embracing and collapsing under reforms. They’re a nurse down, they’ve got to slash their budget and there’s a new Head of the local Clinical Commissioning Group who eats GPs for breakfast.

The practice’s calamitous ‘celebrity’ Dr Jeremy who doesn’t know what a Clinical Commissioning Group is, continues to dodge alimony payments, malpractice suits and the new scary practice Nurse Monica. 

Jeremy.......................David Westhead
Hugh..........................Simon Greenall
Monica.......................Polly Frame
Roy............................Nigel Planer
Veronica.....................Annette Crosbie
Stephanie/Mrs O'Neil..................Margaret Cabourn-Smith
Ali Evans....................Caroline Rodgers

Written by Dr Phil Hammond and Mr David Spicer

Director: Frank Stirling

A Unique production for BBC Radio 4, first broadcast in May 2016.

Polyoaks: Series 4

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