the last joke is funnier if you know that Hacker was a journalist in the past

@rajeevkelvin3724

3 жыл бұрын

Newspaper editor

@michaelgrace1298

2 жыл бұрын

@@rajeevkelvin3724 journalist

@priyer74

Жыл бұрын

Bernard always gets his funny one liners in the end😁😁

I watch all of this just to hear Bernard utter his lines. Even though he has got only a few of them, he’s so worthwhile. He’s wisdom impersonated.

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

Reminds me of the classic Washington Monument ploy. Any time a funding cutback is proposed, the first thing cut will be the area that most annoys the public: IE closing the Washington Monument. The public then turns against the cutback, and all the actual areas of bloat and inefficiency are protected.

it's funny because he was a journalist before he was elected minister.

@baardkopperud

4 жыл бұрын

Have a feeling that perhaps the writers had forgotten about that by then...

@heiveldboy

3 жыл бұрын

@@baardkopperud I mean... He forgot the date. Even if they forgot it's very serendipitous.

@mercenery1232

2 жыл бұрын

So was the duce

I'm not sure how many of you know this, but after this episode was broadcast, the writers received an anonymous tip-off from Whitehall that the 'empty hospital' scenario was very close to the bone! Apparently at least one inner-city hospital was fully staffed but without any patients for several months!

@22espec

4 жыл бұрын

I think they knew about that BEFORE the episode thanks to a mole they have. Thats why they were so spot on. The government quickly hired doctors to avoid the scandal.

@monkeymox2544

4 жыл бұрын

In fairness, you do need administrative staff before you have doctors. You need to hire, sort out logistics, get the accounting department going, purchase equipment, and make sure every single non-medical element of the hospital is operational before medical staff move in. Otherwise there'd be doctors and nurses sat around with nothing to do, no-one paying them, no-one delivering supplies, no-one cleaning or preparing food, and no patients. Obviously keeping it running if there are no plans to employ medical staff is ludicrous. But I would expect a couple of months of administrative staff before the medical staff move in.

@Trepur349

4 жыл бұрын

They interviewed a lot of former ministers and secretaries asking for their most shocking stories off the record. For a lot of episodes they then slightly tweaked some facts and exaggerated others for comedic effect. The alcohol in the communications room at an islamic country actually happened, it was a delegation to Pakistan That's why it seems to be so spot-on, because so much of it is loosely based on true stories

@trooperdgb9722

4 жыл бұрын

@@monkeymox2544 Don't introduce logic and facts! People will get upset.

@TheSkunkyMonk

4 жыл бұрын

9 years on and we have that very scenario with the new Nightingale Hospital, served 59 people and has closed its door yet it is keeping on the admin staff. We really do need to start holding our civil servants to account and start to sack the incompetent without compensation.

Yes Minister is really a documentary...

@sylvanabeaulieu8464

4 жыл бұрын

Never learned more on the way governments are run than by watching this show. And even many years later, we continue to relate...

@advorak8529

4 жыл бұрын

Of course it is a documentary. Straight reporting of the plain facts is called ”Satire”. Though even sanitised reporting is looking like satire these days. Also, they are actually talking about the Nightingale Hospital in the Excel centre, London. To protect the guilty they mix up a few things … like in this case the hospital is presented as ready and roaring to go (not as still a building site) - except they only have a few token patients and turned away most requests: they simply could not scratch up any more nurses to run the ventilator beds (not even talking about “safely”). They have not only reached the bottom of the barrel, they scratched clean through it. We have and have had had a severe shortage of nurses (and doctors) for how many years now? And to solve this problem, we remove bursaries for nursing students, underpay nurses, scare off and treat foreign nurses badly and starve the NHS (compare percentage of GDP for healthcare with other first world countries). The NHS cannot be turned into a printing press for money for the 1%, as the US healthcare system is. The _only_ reason it is privatised in a salami tactic is that the public knows how good and important the NHS is. To dismantle/privatise it faster is pitchfork and torches time.

@advorak8529

4 жыл бұрын

@@michaelgrace1298 Which words or phrases did you not understand? Which concepts give you trouble?

@michaelgrace1298

4 жыл бұрын

@@advorak8529 you're agenda

@advorak8529

4 жыл бұрын

Michael Grace Did you mean that I have an agenda? Sure, just like you I have an agenda. Does that invalidate the truth or make facts “alternative”? And thank you for actually starting to read what I wrote. Not so hard to understand, is it?

One of the best and funniest lines delivered by Derek Fowldes was his description: "A consignment of geriatric boot-makers", translated: "a load of old cobblers"(which basically meant "a lot of nonsense").

Yes Minister and Yes Prime Minister should be made required viewing for anyone who wants to go into politics or join the civil service.

@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

I was expecting the line after "Roy has got it wrong" to be "It's in south London".

Years ago (late 1980s?), there was a prison in the US Midwest that was fully staffed with trained correctional officers, administrative staff, etc., but no prisoners! They would bus high school students to the prison to act as inmates so that the staff could practice in-processing. Eventually, they got inmates from somewhere (Florida?) and they opened for business.

Clearly its one of the Nightingale Hospitals.

RIP Derek Fowlds 17 January 2020

@sakthivelpalaniappan3964

4 жыл бұрын

Oh boy... RIP Derek Fowlds...

@dougmasson1964

4 жыл бұрын

Tbh he is probably lucky

Thank's Paul, Nigel and Derek.

This is funny because it is really happening in Edinburgh. The new children's hospital in Edinburgh due to open 2012 still not open, still has staff and cost £1 million per month. Design problems meant it can't be used even in a pandemic.

What a great series it was!

Ha ha, empty hospitals, those were the days!

@fingerscrossed2453

4 жыл бұрын

@ricky gore nightingales have less patients in them?

Best show UK ever produced 👍 EVER 👌👌👌 Globally relatable and IMO will always be relevant for future generations also 😇😇😇😇

An empty hospital? Now that's *really* funny.

@sreddi83

4 жыл бұрын

The Nightingale Hospital?

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

@gentblue

5 жыл бұрын

Many hospitals like this.

Fantastic series

How annoying? In the original episode Sir Humphry makes the case that the 'empty hospital' is the most efficient hospital in the UK. A great example of government double think. Really wish this clip would inlcude Humpy's response.

@framodcole

4 жыл бұрын

Same

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

So true even today hospitals stay empty.

I'm from the UK, and I read that KZread and the BBC made some sort of deal about broadcasting, so I'm not sure why they have adverts. Maybe all the revenue goes to YT, who knows..?

You know it turned out that there were realy hospitals in the UK with the same problem during the 70s.

Sir Humphrey:Now I know It's a precaution for pandemic.

@zubina_

4 жыл бұрын

Same lol

How did they manage to get all this filmed while people were laughing at them? I mean, this is a fly-on-the-wall documentary, isn't it?

Mr Henry Moor Neurosurgeon may enjoy and relate to this !

Notice how the refugee problem had a mention, similar to today. Life immitating art again. Lol

Empty Hospitals now

This actually happened in Peru, a brand new hospital was inaugurated,by the President himself, a year ago with much fanfare. It turned out the patients and medical staff were just for propaganda purposes, and it had no actual patients nor medical staff to speak of. Being still a backwater country with a messy political system, this did no surprise most peruvians.

Quite sad to see the NHS still has the same problems

Do I hear the Nightingale Hospitals in this?

@tdp1909 ... they don't, it's KZread that put the adverts up.

@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. :)

So good

it's actually thursday lol

I wish I could do a posh accent. I feel as though certain conversations are only to be had using it- not talking about the video.

@Jpdt19

4 жыл бұрын

It's usually the art of using 6 words when 2 will do....

Nightingale Hospitals??

This is actually so close to the truth

No, it's actually Wednesday.

yeah possibly, but that would be in with the standard YT deal in the first place, for any partner, BBC won't have control of what advertising YT chooses to use. Only in which part of the world your IP address is coming from... for instance we get UK advertising before this clip, so I guess someone watching this from the USA would get advertising tailored to their market. YT controls that. Anyway BBC America has commercials. We pay a licence fee to keep commercials off BBC UK and BBC Radio UK.

OH NOES I MEZZED UP THE 343!

I have heard that it is pronounced "Wenz-day" but in this scene, Hacker says 'Wed-nes-day". I am confused. Which one is correct?

@stephenphillip5656

2 жыл бұрын

Wed-ens-day.... or Wenz-day if you prefer.

Which season, episode is this?

@danielopolot7842

7 жыл бұрын

Season 2 Episode 1 (the compassionate society)

And why does this kind of thing happen everywhere? Because people are people and it doesn't matter where they work or what they do or what country they happen to live in.

But surely if they're KZread partners then they make a slice of the advertising revenue?

Precious. I am a MD myself, and we'git one or two "facilities" like that, fully equiped, loads of pub money wasted, and still shut down (even past C19 pand). A disgrace

💯👍😅😂

And this is why Boris wants to sell the NHS.

"Vote for Brexit and we will use the money to fund the NHS." The funding for the NHS:

@clairenoon4070

2 жыл бұрын

Eh?

#PITUITARY ? fully staffed !

@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?

the rona brought me here.

@svrljig NO, it definitely can't be considered normal, nevertheless it happens still and people from the goverment don't do anything with it. After all hospitals are public domain, aren't they?

Isn't he the ex-editor of the newspaper reform?

@Herman47

4 жыл бұрын

i think so

or learning about good tv

I guess it shows.

I thought the BBC didn't do commercial adverts??

@ChrisBarrett1

6 жыл бұрын

tdp1909 BBC Worldwide is the commercial arm owned by the BBC

@stephenphillip5656

2 жыл бұрын

They don't in UK but advertising on YT is a YT matter.

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

to the 6 people that didn't like this: please don't breed.

@ThePamastymui

6 жыл бұрын

Now there are 10 of them.

@Steelmage99

6 жыл бұрын

They are multiplying!!

@Isleofskye

6 жыл бұрын

It's getting out of control !! There are SEVENTEEN of the little monsters now :( We are being taken over....

@JimC

6 жыл бұрын

They're probably Civil Service. :D

@PhilipDK5800

6 жыл бұрын

Oh heavens, 18 now!

Nothing changes eh...

@stephenphillip5656

2 жыл бұрын

Indeed not. Made in the early 80s, reflecting things which had happened over the preceding 30 years.... 30 years on (2021) we have empty hospitals (the Nightingale ones) which were set up in conference centres etc to deal with the Covid-19 pandemic & never saw a patient. Now being decommissioned.

Welcome to the future of American health care!

Speaking for corruption in capitalism,must not blind us,there were much difficult social problems in communist countries.On day in Soviet Union,a man goes to the car agency to order a car.After all the details and paperwork,he asks the clerk when he will have his car.The clerk answers "after four years,in 15 of April",then he asks again "morning or noon?","what is the difference?","in morning a have to wait for the plumber" !!!!

This episode really frustrates me

It's strange listening to Paul Eddington talking about hospitals. About 16 or 17 years after this episode was aired, Eddington died of skin cancer in 1999.

@Desmaad

4 жыл бұрын

Cancer he'd been suffering most of his life. BTW, he actually died in 1995.

@bennylloyd-willner9667

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah, just immediately after the show... 16-17 years - how strange that some people dies from a disease... on a hospital no less... What a weird thing to write just to write about how he died (and apparently get the year wrong in the process) Then again, with such a childish username, it's not strange at all...

one of which is dont listen to your Permanent Secretary, another is the 6 different excuses for delaying a piece of legislation

Fantastic series

I'm not sure how many of you know this, but after this episode was broadcast, the writers received an anonymous tip-off from Whitehall that the 'empty hospital' scenario was very close to the bone! Apparently at least one inner-city hospital was fully staffed but without any patients for several months!