The empty hospital - Yes Minister - BBC comedy

The curious case of the empty hospital in a classic BBC clip from Yes Minister.

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[thajr]

If you are the least bit interested in learning about government...or learning how to do it right...you must learn the lessons taught by Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister

[britishleylandcrap]

As they say, all comedy is based on reality :)

[najhoant]

@powergirl07 Not exactly. It was imagined by the writers of the show, but afterwards there actually turned out to be half a dozen real hospitals just like the one in the episode. In one of them, the only patient really was someone who tripped on some scaffolding and broke her leg

[KevinByrne2]

I remember watching the episode "Big Brother", where they discussed "creative inertia" (delaying tactics of the civil service). I was stunned to realize that my local town government used EXACTLY the same tactics. Civil servants around the planet must study the same book.

[powergirl07]

Actually, this was based on a real story so there really was a hospital like this.

[acr08807]

@thajr I agree. Sir Humphrey is an excellent model for how to get ahead in government service.

[AliceTRoyal]

Haha, this exact problem happened in my city....a brand-new hospital was built and then due to cutbacks they couldn't staff it. The local paper posted this on their website when the story broke....hehehe

[9omi]

wats with the dislikes are these the same people disliking all the good videos on the youtbe.

[stoprainingonme]

@darklightraven British sitcom? The only one I know of is Only When I Laugh. And Dave? From the USA? Yeah I know him, were you at school with him or something?

[Pandramika]

remind me of Queensland health System!

[sphoney]

@darklightraven Crikey, that is a pretty vague question :) Off the top of my head from roughly this era there was Only When I Laugh, or Surgical Spirit (I think? My mum used to watch that). More recently there was Greenwing, and that definitely had inept doctors; there was the mock-horror Garth Marenghi's Dark Place, which was great but mainly of cult appeal I think.

Hope one of those takes you in the right direction. :)

[darklightraven]

please does any body know this funny hospital sitcom where there is a nurse guy or an intern who does evrything wrong all the time, if you know what i mean even though it is like aqsking hey do you know david that lives in usa :D but well