The National Health (1973)

The National Health is a 1973 British comedy film directed by Jack Gold and starring Lynn Redgrave, Colin Blakely and Eleanor Bron. It is based on the play The National Health by Peter Nichols, in which the staff struggle to cope in an underfunded NHS hospital. The film satirically interweaves the story of the real 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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Cast:

• Neville Aurelius
• Gillian Barge
• Colin Blakely
• Eleanor Bron
• George Browne
• Patience Collier
• Jim Dale
• Jumoke Debayo
• Robert Gillespie
• John Hamill
• Don Hawkins
• James Hazeldine
• Bob Hoskins
• David Hutcheson
• Mervyn Johns
• Bert Palmer
• Maureen Pryor
• Lynn Redgrave
• Sheila Scott-Wilkenson
• Donald Sinden
• Richie Stewart
• Clive Swift
• Graham Weston