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Care provision in Bristol is restructured ‘in order to liberate the fiscal horizon’. Will the surgery submit to supervision from the private sector or will it go under?

Meanwhile one of the patients is sitting on a sensitive problem.

Nigel Planer and Simon Greenall star in the Health Service satire by Dr Phil Hammond and David Spicer.

Neil Dudgeon and John Schwab make guest appearances.

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

Hugh..........................Simon Greenall
Jeremy.......................David Westhead
Monica.......................Polly Frame
Roy............................Nigel Planer
Mr Beckman................Neil Dudgeon
Stephanie Simons........Margaret Cabourn-Smith
Mr Eisenburger............John Schwab

Director: Frank Stirling

A Unique production for ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4, first broadcast in May 2016.