Playing everyone from an alternative therapy-obsessed porter to a chaplain who'd rather be a comedian, Tom Binns takes on multiple parts in a mockumentary pilot charting life at the fictional Brimlington Hospital. It's nowhere near edgy enough, but there are some good gags nonetheless. Manager Susan Mitchell discusses MRSA rates: "If you come into this hospital with a heart condition, you're going to die of a heart condition, not pick up a secondary infection along the way."

Hosptial People review

Hospital People has plenty of nice lines, although it falls between a sketch show and a sitcom, not quite having enough plot to justify the latter, beyond the general threat of creeping commercial interests. That's a timely theme, but having a more specific plot would certainly benefit Hospital People were it picked up for a series. Here's hoping, for the deadpanned innuendos could fill a big slot.

TV review: Hospital People, BBC1

A new series of pilots kicks off with a medical comedy as sharp as a scalpel, brutally putting Jeremy Hunt and the NHS under the microscope. Actually no. Hospital People is more Carry On Nurse without the nurses and slightly misses a trick by not being particularly political. It is set in a fictional hospital and does at least touch on creeping NHS privatisation, but the main laughs are broad. And there are plenty of them.