Eight Days a Week

The staff of the dysfunctional West Country surgery have their work cut out to provide 'a truly 7 day service'.

TV’s Dr. Jeremy has a possible solution, but it remains to be seen if it’s ethical.

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

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
Stephanie Simons........Margaret Cabourn-Smith
Patients......................Duncan Wisbey and Zalie Burrow

Director: Frank Stirling

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