The National Health (Standard Edition)

Jack Gold's film about life and death in a shabby London hospital interweaves the story of the real hospital with a fantasy one which exists in the soap-opera world of 'Nurse Norton's Affair', where everything is fully funded and patients are miraculously cured. A darkly funny satire on the state of the nation and also a deeply prescient comment on TV's ability to turn tragedy into entertainment, The National Health sits somewhere between the bawdy antics of the Carry On films and the angry satire of Lindsay Anderson's Britannia Hospital, but emerges as a starkly prophetic film, more relevant now than ever.High Definition remasterOriginal mono audioAudio commentary with actor Jim Dale and journalist Nick PinkertonBack to Health (2017, 24 mins): interview with author and playwright Peter NicholsOriginal theatrical trailerImage gallery: on-set and promotional photographyNew English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing