I love how he gets nervous about a strike and then realizes no patient is going to suffer, so he encourages everyone to strike. 😆

@sampuatisamuel9785

2 жыл бұрын

Yes that was very well portrayed

@ykkrasaoz9748

Жыл бұрын

yes thank you for writing in words what the scene depicted

@imperiumoccidentis7351

Жыл бұрын

You’ve got to love it when people in the comment section highlight the parts of the video they liked and then there’s always some asshole that has to say “You just repeated what was in the video” or “yes we just watched it”. The point isn’t to plagiarise the video we just watched, the point is to highlight the parts we found particularly funny

@abssch

Жыл бұрын

Problem is later in the episode it’s revealed that all of the workers in every London hospital would go on strike 😮

@vincentsmit1935

Жыл бұрын

Paul Eddington, immaculate timing!

The woman playing the administrator does a fantastic Sir Humphrey impression. She almost had me convinced that funding a hospital with no patients or doctors is a triumph in efficiency.

@petersenior5432

3 жыл бұрын

It actually is a triumph in efficiency! But, the point of a hospital isn't efficiency, the point is doing the job of a hospital. Otherwise it's just a building with 500 workers. It's efficient at not being a hospital

@StarlasAiko

3 жыл бұрын

Tell that to the NHS managers in 2012, who closed down 17k beds because they wanted to increase efficiency by having hospitals run at 100% capacity during calm times...no empty beds ever, even if that means not enough beds in a crisis.

@JBGARINGAN

3 жыл бұрын

@@StarlasAiko but wouldn't that imply that they would have to cause people harm in order to fill in beds? Like in normal situations there should be more beds available than there are patients right? Can you imagine medical staff being upset there aren't enough unwell or I'll people to treat, I mean yeah that's what they get paid to do but isn't it a good thing there aren't alot of patients? I feel like either I've got it completely wrong or logic is being thrown out somewhere.

@StarlasAiko

3 жыл бұрын

Joe Garingan they play it the other way round. No need to create patients to fill the beds, they just get rid of the empty beds.

@lukemarshall1701

2 жыл бұрын

It would be a triumph of sorts in providing employment. When I did a placement in the NHS in the far off days of 1982-3 I was told the District layer of management had been introduced for purely political reasons and was a good means of ensuring things were not done.

Taken from IMDb: Trivia Although the story-line seems fairly implausible, the writers had researched the idea and found there were at least six NHS hospitals or major wings of hospitals which, like the fictional St. Andrews Hospital, had no patients. One in Cambridgeshire had only one patient: the Matron (head of nursing staff) who had fallen over some scaffolding and broken her leg.

@Plexuz0

Жыл бұрын

I feel like you could make a whole documentary on those six locations. It's like a twilight zone episode. I always thought this was the most unbelievable plotline in the series, but I knew they wouldn't have run it if it wasn't based on something that actually happened on normal island.

“…but Minister it’s one of the best run hospitals in the country” - ROFL

@Herman47

4 жыл бұрын

"the most hygienic hospital in the area!"

@Djarms67

4 жыл бұрын

Herman47 lol only because it not be use by any Patients.

@613aristocrat

4 жыл бұрын

You could see her break on that. :)

@thiagodeandrade7081

4 жыл бұрын

To be fair, they have not lost a single patient yet.

@Dayvit78

4 жыл бұрын

A very Pythonesque statement - cheese shop.

The beauty of this show (and the terror of reality) is that it's all still entirely relevant.

@stephenhenderson6404

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah ... That's right British hospitals are famously overstaffed.

@LouieAblett

4 жыл бұрын

@@stephenhenderson6404 even more relevant now, in the opposite sense

@JJVernig

4 жыл бұрын

@@LouieAblett Don't forget, the number of administrators and other staff are all going up, while the number of beds has fallen the last 30 years. There are more patients treated, but the hospitals are quite full during winter (>95%)

@bbgun061

4 жыл бұрын

Look at the tent hospitals that were built in America for Covid-19. Administrators making $2000/day and they have no patients!

@oakstrong1

4 жыл бұрын

@ Michael Ritchie I have been saying it for years. Even though these episodes refer to very REAL (including this ione) events and politics of the day, they're are still relevant because nothing has essentially changed.

"It is a place heeeealinnnng the sick!" - He sounded like a televangelist there for a moment

Having had some dealings with hospitals , I recall one design meeting for expanding a major hospital where the word "patient" was never mentioned but" administration" was very abundant !

@ashleelmb

3 жыл бұрын

It just goes to show that the collective sect leaders of humanity will always prioritize self interest above everything else as much as they always did in the past with their predecessors, no matter how ironic things get.

@grosvenorclub

3 жыл бұрын

@@ashleelmb Yes , nothing really changes

@anonUK

2 жыл бұрын

Was it the admin wing?

@grosvenorclub

2 жыл бұрын

@@anonUK Yes , lots of discussion about the additional need in admin , very little about patient areas !!

@odedben-josef7029

9 ай бұрын

One wonders, if all the staff were given an offer to be paid the same salary for staying at home and not working (so the unnecessary staff would at least not interfere with those who do work) how many would take that offer and how many would be offended by it. I mean, how important it is for them to pretend to work compared to just getting the money...

This... actually makes twisted sense to me and is what I call "efficiency freaks". Basically the Hospital is operating at full efficiency because that was prioritized over actual effectiveness. There is no waste, no unneeded expenditures, and the Hospital is humming along smoothly and properly. The medical staff were deemed less important to efficiency so they got the axe. To use a metaphor, this Hospital is like a car engine with no car. Strictly speaking the car isn't needed for the engine to be efficient, and therefore, the car was deemed unnecessary.

@Plethorality

4 жыл бұрын

Shops would be so easy to run if it weren't for all those customers getting in the way.

@TheAussieBlue

4 жыл бұрын

@@Plethorality You joke, but I have actually seen this opinion.

@Plethorality

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheAussieBlue true.

@paulsynnott2709

3 жыл бұрын

It's a bit like the story of a bus company when people complained the buses weren't stopping at bus stops and the explanation from the company was that if the buses actually stopped, it would disrupt the timetable.

@charlestaylor9424

3 жыл бұрын

Ask any teacher when schools are at their best.

I saw an interview with Jonathan Lynn and he said he was chatting with a Public Servant many years after this episode aired. The fellow asked him how he new about the empty hospital? Lynn didn't know what he was talking about. He explained that the NHS actually had run a hospital which had one patient, the Matron, who had tripped on maintenance equipment was treated for a broken leg.

This series, like MASH, is based on lots and lots of insider information. This episode in particular. In fact, it had to be *toned*down* for believability. At the time of research and writing for this episode, the number of such hospitals (full admin staff, zero medical staff and patients) was not one, as portrayed in the episode, but *eleven*. But it was felt that no-one would believe the episode if they used the actual number.

@kathleenstern6822

3 жыл бұрын

So bureaucratic chaos is the continuous thread of large scale state co ntrolled ‘hospitals’ and healthcare. Now even the GPS went awol for a year. What the hell are we paying the billions for?

@qichen85

2 жыл бұрын

@@kathleenstern6822 Ah, actually no. That's not the large scale state issue. Just the opposite, this is the state being entirely powerless because the moment a rabid union leader and media reported started on something about "the government's fault", the voters just jumped on the bandwagon. Remember here, Hacker, the government minister, is the one that want to stop wasting money and get actual patient in. You, the voter, is the one that listened to media and prevented anything to be done and continues to waste money. Until the voting base can accept that they are every bit to blame for many problems in the country and actually start doing research before screaming "it's all state's fault", this will continue to happen.

@aegis3141

Жыл бұрын

@@kathleenstern6822 in the immortal world of sir humprey appleby : for efficient bureaucracy of course!

This shows: _Bureaucracy doesn't need external influence. I'ts occupied enough with itself._

@jermainerace4156

3 жыл бұрын

We must expand out bureaucracy to meet the needs of our expanding bureaucracy.

@lastswordfighter

3 жыл бұрын

Sounds like a form of malignant narcissist.

@fridolinmaier8806

2 жыл бұрын

It's a self-reproductive system

This series gets better and better as the years go on.

Most hygienic hospital! 😂😂🤣🤣🤣😎

41 trade unionists do not like this interesting little video.

This actually happened in Australia a few years ago: hospital wards were opened with no doctors (or patients), but the government counted the beds in the wards as available so the figures wouldn't look so bad. Then there was the hospital that was still being built when patients were moved in, and the old one demolished because reasons. Patients and staff had to dodge building works in the wards, oxygen systems weren't able to be used.

@anggrimunki

2 жыл бұрын

Sounds a lot like redcliffe in Queensland...

@richardmartin8998

2 жыл бұрын

@@anggrimunki it was both in Adelaide and Perth.

@leftcoaster67

Жыл бұрын

Happens here all the time. Wards get built because it creates construction jobs. Then when the wing is finished. There's no money to staff it.

People to often forget that in draconian top down organization structures shit close to this actually happens. There are even special accountants who are hired by some company's to look for things like this.

@RD19902010

4 жыл бұрын

Normally that is the job of consultants/external auditors

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, Minister was often discovered to be satirising things that actually happened. There were hospitals running like this; just as there really were “special communications rooms” where ministers could smuggle drinks into dry nations.

@hoilst

4 жыл бұрын

Pournelle's Iron Law of Bureaucracy: "In any bureaucracy, the people devoted to the benefit of the bureaucracy itself always get in control and those dedicated to the goals the bureaucracy is supposed to accomplish have less and less influence, and sometimes are eliminated entirely...in any bureaucratic organization there will be two kinds of people: those who work to further the actual goals of the organization, and those who work for the organization itself. Examples in education would be teachers who work and sacrifice to teach children, vs. union representatives who work to protect any teacher including the most incompetent. The Iron law states that in all cases, the second type of person will always gain control of the organization, and will always write the rules under which the organization functions."

@grahamhaspassedaway4580

4 жыл бұрын

It's not even that things LIKE this happened- this exact thing did happen. Not just once - the writers were informed that there were actually six such hospitals in operation around the UK at the time. All of them were fully staffed with administration and support staff, but had no medical staff at all, and thus no patients. In fact many of the events depicted in Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister were directly based on real events. The show runners had a couple of senior sources in the Civil Service who would leak all sorts of stuff to them. They'd exaggerate the comic angle, of course, but it's definitely got a documentary angle.

@rawyld

4 жыл бұрын

Also the Iranian no drinking alcohol fiasco did really happen. So they set up a communication office so they could sip in some wine instead of orange juice.

The cheese shop! Cleanest cheese shop around! Certainly uncontaminated by cheese

Heeeeeeeeealing the SICK!!

This reminds me of hospitals who referred their sickest children to me accompanied by referral letters emblazoned with accolades, awards and all sorts. The irony..

Brilliantly written classic comedy that’s morphed into a documentary

@markfox1545

2 жыл бұрын

Oh God, another prick saying this is a documentary. Have you ever had an original thought?

@ReddwarfIV

Жыл бұрын

It was always a documentary

We need more ministers like that in government, less bureaucratic administration, more administration to the sick!

@Thursdaym2

4 жыл бұрын

That would mean them putting their necks on the block.

@mkumku7997

4 жыл бұрын

You should watch this episode to the end.

@Yngvarfo

3 жыл бұрын

He's way too weak, and way too concerned with how he looks in the media. Usually Sir Humphrey and the civil service end up making sure that nothing gets done.

Just today we learn that the NHS is meeting the social care crisis challenge by hiring 'an army of £200,000 bureaucrats' [Telegraph]. 2021, but Yes, Minister remains spot-on, eternal like the Civil Service ('forever and ever, amen').

This is one of the best shows ever made!

I once heard a Consultant say (entirely seriously) "This job would be easy without all the patients messing things up"

I think we needed Hacker in parliament this year. With all these hospitals opened up for COVID-19 patients months ago, yet they remain empty to this day.

@rextravers8054

3 жыл бұрын

Staff everywhere but no elective surgery???????????????????

@ashleelmb

3 жыл бұрын

@@rextravers8054 Exactly

Is this the Nightingale?

The sick childrens' hospital in Edinburgh, currently with no children. It's been 33 years since this show went off the air, but the issues raised are still relevant today.

@rhyfelaherwfilwrol6732

4 жыл бұрын

Well you'll be happy to know it'll be full soon no doubt.

@jedimmj11

4 жыл бұрын

@@rhyfelaherwfilwrol6732 oh dear that's dark

@callum4387

4 жыл бұрын

Mendel J Unfortunately it won’t due to the incompetence of our (Scottish) government who have consistently used PFI and screwed up NHS infrastructure upgrades.

This was the first episode I ever saw of this show. I was hooked.

Well done minister!

The "ha ha" at the end is what makes this perfect.

It's the finest hospital in the district. Well, it's certainly uncontaminated by cheese.

@edpatel713

3 жыл бұрын

The first thing that came into my mind!

The minister seems a trifle impatient with them. ;)

@clickrick

6 жыл бұрын

Would you prefer that he be outpatient instead?

@raphaelalexandreyensen6291

4 жыл бұрын

aye, even frank bordering on direct.

The way he says "haha" and walks out reinforces the rumors that he's Richard Hendricks' grandfather.

People have no idea how close to reality this show was. Truth usually reveals itself in comedy ;)

"But if they weren't here, they wouldn't be here!" Makes perfect sense! :P

My mother was a medical secretary at one of these hospitals with no patients in London in the 1970s. Basically they did research and gave advice to other hospitals.

@ShangZilla

5 жыл бұрын

In other words they did some *work only on paper.

@jodhod1498

5 жыл бұрын

@@ShangZilla IN OTHER, OTHER WORDS, like scientists, writers, architects, programmers etc Don't bunk on research. We live in the age of information.

@ShangZilla

5 жыл бұрын

@@jodhod1498 If you actually knew something about research these days, you would know that most of research is just for sake of showing research and getting grants. Academics have to constantly publish research or risk losing their position and career.

@drwatsonca6945

4 жыл бұрын

That is fine if that is all they did but this hospital was set up to be a hospital and had all the equipment meant to help people.

@aidanjt

4 жыл бұрын

@@ShangZilla Yup, there's a massive replication crisis in vast swathes of academia, and garbage research then gets cited so more research is churned out based on garbage, and on and on it goes.

Yes Minister never fails to make me laugh! Just as relevant now as ever. Just as funny too.

This is damn close to reality today.

He's shocked by the presence of a ventilator.

@ashleelmb

3 жыл бұрын

Well he would be. At this point in time in the video, COVID-19 wasn't due for another 30 or so years.

I am so glad to finally find it on the net, it's still one of my favourites. Shame this is not the full episode, because it gets even better.

so true in many walks of life even in private sector

I always thought Jim had the upper hand here. Even with the unions. Just a threat of going public that the unions wanted to stop a hospital paid for by tax payer money from having patients and being over manned would have worked and called their bluff in 1980.

@zroutube

Жыл бұрын

Exactly. I was disappointed that he backed down, he actually had a strong case, but was too much of a chicken to see it through.

Early 1980s series..still true today 2020..that's how good our MPs are..

I just love it.

Rings so true in the current pandemic: ‘Protect the NHS” - notably not ‘protect patients’. So hundreds of thousands of procedures were cancelled or postponed for [years] - with the inevitable consequence of tens of thousands of people dying from e.g. cancer (where time matters). But the NHS is ok....

life imitates art

@sampuatisamuel9785

2 жыл бұрын

Art imitates life

The best tv series of all time....

Timeless. Fabulous

This happened in New York in 2020... except the minister then said good job

@sampuatisamuel9785

2 жыл бұрын

Oh my goodness

Outstanding and brilliant

This seems most relevant now.

@fireflyrobert

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed

We currently have a hospital like that in Edinburgh. Supposed to open last year, staffed but too dangerous to use even during the Covid emergency.

Priceless!

This literally happened in my country

@HariMehtaKarunesh

3 жыл бұрын

Tell us about it!

@bluedragon219123

3 жыл бұрын

What country? :)

The more serious thought I give this then the more I see this as the way forward..

This has to be the template for the attitude of Hywel Dda health authority in West Wales!

That union rep should be made redundant for that Scottish accent.

They’ll be in need of this hospital now!

@bennylloyd-willner9667

4 жыл бұрын

Hmm, I'd rather stay home and heal myself than letting administrators work on me😁

@alexsmyth17

4 жыл бұрын

Actually, on second thoughts, that might be the way to go. What was I thinking?

@bennylloyd-willner9667

4 жыл бұрын

@@alexsmyth17 Maybe you are a Civil Servant, their thinking is different 😂

@alexsmyth17

4 жыл бұрын

Benny Lloyd-Willner 😂

I see 3 trade unionists don't like this video.

4 жыл бұрын

You low IQ right wing pricks are so fucking dumb.

@tylercherry465

4 жыл бұрын

@ 52% is still 52% so fuck off you leftie tosser

@summushieremiasclarkson4700

4 жыл бұрын

@ I thought measuring IQ was considered racist, seeing as certain demographics don't do so well on it? Must be nice on your throne of hypocrisy.

@Comando96

4 жыл бұрын

@ My advise to you is not to open the IQ box. It doesn't lead to happy places for the left. 13, 50, and all.

@Redolentleek

3 жыл бұрын

@ life must be sad when you come to a comedy show from way back and start spoutting left and right ideologies and insulting people. Lol

This is sadly all too true.

Spot on.💯👏👍💐🤝

70s. Strikes saw my family in bed bye 8 pm . No electricity. No gas. No hearting. Even the dead couldn't get buried.

In these times this clip suddenly sounds tragic

A conversation I had not so long ago put me mind of this. Bloke who works in the higher education bureaucracy was telling me about how his university has buildings all over the city that are not actually being used for anything, but the senior management, for whatever self-interested, political reason won't put them to use, or get rid of them.

@bennylloyd-willner9667

4 жыл бұрын

Maybe they need them for important and secret amorous meetings😁

@ultra_vires

3 жыл бұрын

It's basic asset management. Selling them off gets you short term gain, but long-term loss when you need to open another building / premises. Cheaper to moth-ball and disuse for years, than to sell and re-purchase later.

You know that this was based on things really going on in the NHS at the time.

@gentblue

3 жыл бұрын

It was actually supposed to be fictional but they found out that it was happening.

@3506Dodge

3 жыл бұрын

@@gentblue I believe it.

This is truer than you might think.

A hygienic hospital without patients is like a cheese shop without cheese. Oh, wait....

They should have brought out the machine that goes "bing"

Pure comic genius

This show was WAY ahead of it's time. #nightingalehospital #filmyourhospital

Boris could take some pointers from PM Hackett🤓

Plenty of patients now.

A FN award😂😂

NHS Nightingale Hospitals: Agile Response to COVID-19 or a White Elephant?

@gentblue

3 жыл бұрын

They prevented the normal hospitals from having to abandon cancer patients for a spike that never happened. They were psychologically helpful at the time when the Italian health service had collapsed.

@nvw2978

3 жыл бұрын

@@gentblue but they didn’t prevent the normal hospitals from treating cancer patients. As we all know patients can err treatment was and still is on hold albeit with a massive backlog.even Hancock has recently said that if Covid gets a grip again then an er patients will be put on hold! The government were even dismantling them despite banging on about a second wave?? Funny that, it’s as if they know they won’t be needed.

With Corona virus hindsight it would seem that some excess capacity is highly desirable.

@finding_aether

4 жыл бұрын

The hospitals have no doctors though. Thats the joke

@matthewlewis2072

4 жыл бұрын

@@finding_aether Part of the current issue is the lack of physical capacity, hence the NHS Nightingale facilities.

So wait...the hospital is functional...but all it has is a skeleton medical team? And 300 administrators? What do these 300 administrators do?

@jayden7945

5 жыл бұрын

SMAXZO administrate

@baardkopperud

5 жыл бұрын

It actually has no medical staff - just administrators, cleaning staff, janitors &c. There were budget cuts, so they had no money for medical staff.

@obliviouz

5 жыл бұрын

Draw a wage and pay union dues. Union bosses need to get their money from somewhere.

@cameron120587

5 жыл бұрын

"Really, Minister! There's a large number of extremely busy departments. Firstly, the Contingency Department for fires, strikes, air raids, nuclear war, epidemics, food or water poisoning. In such a crisis, the hospital is a key centre for survival. Then, the Data and Research Department, conducting a full-scale demographic survey of the catchment area. We have to anticipate the future requirements for maternity, geriatrics, paediatrics and the male/female balance. Thirdly, there's Finance - projected accounts, balance sheets and cash-flow budgets. Then, the Purchasing Department for purchasing medical equipment, examining estimates, looking at price lists and catalogues." "Purchasing what?" "Everything, Minister. Everything from brain scanners to Brasso! May I continue?" "Be briefer." "Would that I could, Minister, but you need to understand. Fifth, the Technical Department for evaluations. Sixth, the Building Department dealing with Phase 3 plans, costing and so forth for the final phase to be completed by 1994. Then, there's Maintenance, Cleaning and Catering, Personnel in charge of leave, National Health Insurance, salaries, as well as staff welfare officers to look after the 500 employees. "And finally, Administration." "Administrators! More administrators administrating other administrators!" Read more: www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/view_episode_scripts.php?tv-show=yes-minister-1980&episode=s02e01

@robertmcqueen289

5 жыл бұрын

@@cameron120587 . It always amazes me when Sir Humphrey comes out with these long statements from memory. Brilliant actor Nigel Hawthorne. Deeply missed today.

Classic

So funny!

Machine that goes ping

Before its time.

The Nationals Childrens Hospital in Ireland is about to become the most expensive in the world.

@sullivan912

2 жыл бұрын

And nowhere near being fit for purpose.

A very realistic episode

Nightingale hospital :D

There is a new water pipeline from Scotland to Kent going on in the country. Hereabouts, busy work has been going on for two years or more. As of today I still see the pipes not actually in the ground and no trench has actually been dug !

Strike, we won't have to pay you

one of the tories nightingale hospitals

this sounds very familiar to how the PM behaved in 2021

@grahwo The Compassionate Society

A prelude to all American hospitals empty beds.

Patients and health care workers are a hindrance to the regular running of a hospital trust.

Old serials were MUCH MUCH better that today's meaningless wasteful shows ...

@fingerscrossed2453

6 жыл бұрын

Morteza Akrami couldn't agree more. the bland tripe on TV now iis pale in comparison to show such as yes minister, which told the truth while capturing humour.

@fingerscrossed2453

6 жыл бұрын

Morteza Akrami couldn't agree more. the bland tripe on TV now iis pale in comparison to show such as yes minister, which told the truth while capturing humour.

@entelin

5 жыл бұрын

There are always a few gems in an otherwise pile of rubbish in any medium and at any time. Yes Minister was a gem, but come now, most of the tv back then was awful. Most of the tv now is awful too, but I think it's actually improved overall quite a bit. It used to be that pretty much all shows had very little ongoing storyline, that has improved significantly, as has consistency, acting quality, cinematography, and audio production.

@ihaveanametoo

4 жыл бұрын

No, it's just that the good ones keep being remembered. Old trash TV is as common as modern trash TV

@Supadubya

4 жыл бұрын

@@ihaveanametoo exactly. Selective recall.

@grahwo and its series 2 episode 1

its not just about efficiency, but responsibility. hospitals try to discharge patients ASAP, especially the serious/terminal patients so that if/when the patient kicks the bucket, the hospital cant be blamed for anything

The question is what you will do if you were at the same position I mean the Minister.

Episode highlights inefficiency & self-serving nature of government bureaucracy. All is not well in the UK.

so easy to win an argument with those types..wow haha such a brilliant show

Is this story line based on something that was going on in Britain?

some cleaners could've fell over the stairs, a rather long stairs

Pity they couldn't find patients for the Nightingale Hospitals.

Typical Government Minister always nit-picking...