Dr Phil Hammond
Wednesday 9 February : 8.30pm
£13.00 : £11.00 concessions : seated

NB. Concessions available for all NHS staff.

Dr Phil Hammond ‘Dr Phil’s Rude Health Show’

Following the sell-out success of 89 Minutes to Save the NHS, Dr Phil escapes from his surgery again to answer all those awkward health questions…. Why, if we’re putting £105 billion into the NHS, is it still no safer than bungee jumping? Why are whistle-blowers still being shot? Why are we nationalising banks and privatising hospitals? How can you get out of hospital alive? Do GPs ever pretend to hear things with a stethoscope? What happens to all the drugs that patients pretend to swallow? How can you spot a dodgy doctor? Is Dr Phil one? And would there be a riot if doctors, politicians and patients really told each other the truth?

Most of us are hard-wired to seek pleasure, but no health system in the world can cope with the tsunami of accident-prone, drug-addled, sex-obsessed, lard-buckets headed our way. Yet very little medical research has been done into pleasure. Why do children put things in their upper holes and adults in their lower holes? Is it safe to fall asleep with a penis enlarger on? Can anyone put a condom on with less than three hands? Should everyone have Scrabble before marriage? And what should you do if someone dies on you during sex? The best way to save the NHS is not to use it, and yet much of the budget is swallowed up by pleasure-seeking illness or injury. So how do you pleasure yourself without ending up in casualty? Dr Phil has all the answers. And if he does’t, he’ll just do what all doctors do. Make some up.

A comedian trapped in a doctor’s body.  The General Medical Council

About Dr Phil

Phil Hammond is a GP, writer, broadcaster and possibly the only comedian to appear at a public inquiry. He is Private Eye’s medical correspondent and broke the story of the Bristol heart scandal in 1992, which lead to the largest public inquiry in British history just 7 years later. In 2009, he broke allegations of serious errors in pathology reporting in Bristol, which lead to an inquiry in just 7 days. He has survived Ruby Wax, Have I Got News For You (7 times), The News Quiz and The Now Show, and was the only doctor to appear for the prosecution on Channel 4′s Doctors on Trial. He still works part time as a GP, presents The Music Group for Radio 4 and is the author of three best-selling books: Medicine Balls (an NHS satire), Trust Me I’m Still a Doctor (20 years of whistle-blowing in Private Eye) and Sex, Sleep or Scrabble? (a pleasure manual). With Tony Gardner, he won a Writer’s Guild Comedy Award and a Silver Sony Award for Struck Off and Die. A DVD of Dr Phil’s Rude Health Show will be released in 2010.