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PUBLISHER: Oberon Books Ltd

FORMAT: Paperback

ISBN: 9781786825018

RRP: £9.99

PAGES: 80

PUBLICATION DATE:
August 30, 2018

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Check Up: Our NHS at 70

Mark Thomas

Mark Thomas is 54, the NHS is 70, UK national average life expectancy is 84. If Mark makes it to 84 the NHS will be 100, what will they both look like?Based on a series of interviews with leading experts in and on the NHS and residencies in hospitals and surgeries and with director Nick Kent, Thomas uses his own demise to explore the state we’re in. What’s going wrong in our NHS, how it can go right and what the future might hold for all of us.

Mark Thomas

Mark Thomas is one of the UK’s most effective and best-known political performers. He has won awards for his stage works Bravo Figaro, Cuckooed and The Red Shed including a Special Edinburgh Fringe Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Festival and an Amnesty Freedom of Expression Award. He is a one-time Guinness World Record holder for the most demonstrations in one day.

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