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The Nation's Health (1983)
Channel 4 was barely a year old when G F Newman's searing drama about the NHS debuted. A commission from Euston Films, produced by the legendary Verity Lambert, The Nation's Health cemented the channel's reputation for hard hitting drama, particularly at a time when Thatcher's government was sharpening its knives ready to butcher the welfare state amidst her own drive to reverse what she saw as a national decline. There is no doubt she inherited a UK dubbed 'the sick man of Europe', crippled by high inflation, high unemployment and stagnant growth. The NHS was caught up in her desire to deregulate the finance sectors and labour markets and flog state owned assets and companies.
Updated Dec 17 2018
Cast
Ian McDiarmid
Kathy Burke
Richard Ireson
Insp. Richie
Tony Calvin
Trevor Bowen
Oona Kirsch
Vivienne Ritchie
Crew
Les Blair
Director
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