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Dr Phil Hammond is a GP, practicing at a specialist NHS centre for children and adolescents with chronic fatigue syndrome/ME. He is also a journalist, broadcaster and comedian.
Struck Off & Die:
Between 1993 and 2000 Phil and a fellow Doctor Tony Gardner had a radio series called Struck Off & Die. They enjoyed much success performing on radio and at Edinburgh. Phil’s own presenting credits include five series of Trust Me, I’m A Doctor (BBC), The Motion Show, Pillories of the State (BBC Radio) and BBC1’s Heaven and Earth Show. Phil recorded a comedy on BBC Radio4 “24 Hours to save the NHS” which he also wrote.
Such was its success that 59 mins To Save The NHS enjoyed ratings-boosting reviews at the Edinburgh Festival which later was followed by a nationwide tour.
Phil is constantly writing and developing material for broadcast with the BBC. He is a renowned humorous and keynote speaker for medical and non-medical functions alike!
In 2012, Dr Phil Hammond was shortlisted with Andrew Bousfield for the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Investigative Journalism for a Private Eye Special Report about the shocking treatment of NHS Whistleblowers. Phil has also won awards for broadcasting, popular health journalism, comedy and teaching.
He is Vice President of the Patients’ Association and also a patron of Meningitis UK, the Doctors’ Support Network, the Herpes Viruses Association, Patients First and Kissing It Better.
TV Credits:
Phil presented five series of Trust Me, I’m a Doctor on BBC2 and has also appeared regularly on Have I Got News for You, The News Quiz, The Now Show, The One Show and Countdown. He has been a Lecturer in Medical Communication at the Universities of Bristol and Birmingham,.
Phil’s Radio 4 sitcom about GPs struggling with the NHS reforms was called Polyoaks. Phil wrote this along with David Spicer.
Phil has written a number of books – Medicine Balls, Trust Me, I’m (Still) a Doctor and Sex, Sleep or Scrabble? to name a few. He has also released DVD’s of his tours (Dr Phil’s Rude Health Show and Confessions of a Doctor).
He continues to tour the UK. Having completed his third UK comedy tour with Games to Play With Your Doctor. Phil’s fourth book, ‘Staying Alive – How to Survive the NHS’. In 2021 PRIVATE EYE Dr Hammond’s Covid Casebook: The collected pandemic columns of Private Eye’s medical correspondent “MD”)
