{"id":493797,"date":"2025-10-12T14:40:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T14:40:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/493797\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T14:40:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T14:40:16","slug":"jeremy-clarkson-rushed-to-hospital-for-painful-treatment-days-after-slamming-the-nhs-celebrity-news-showbiz-tv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/493797\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeremy Clarkson rushed to hospital for ‘painful treatment’ days after slamming the NHS | Celebrity News | Showbiz & TV"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not long after writing a scathing critique of the NHS, in which he claimed that many foreign doctors working in our hospitals are only in the UK because they\u2019ve been barred from practising in their home countries, Jeremy Clarkson<\/a> found himself in hospital. Writing in the Sunday Times<\/a>, the former Top Gear presenter declined to specify exactly why he had required emergency treatment, simply saying that the procedure was \u201cDefcon 1 painful\u201d, before joking that \u201cthey had to chisel me off the ceiling with a spatula afterwards.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jeremy explained that he had, for many years, paid for private health insurance, but claimed he had become disillusioned with how often insurers tried to wriggle out of paying for various procedures. Instead, he decided to regularly put a sum of money into a dedicated bank account. However, when Jeremy found himself urgently needing medical care last weekend, he was a good two-hour drive away from the nearest private healthcare provider.<\/p>\n

But that meant that he would be walking into an NHS hospital just hours after his column describing the health service as a \u201ccreaking old monster\u201d had been published.<\/p>\n

He joked: \u201cI had a very hot neck when I realised this and wondered if I should maybe tiptoe into the hospital in a Piers Morgan<\/a> face mask.\u201d<\/p>\n

He worried that someone might urinate into his tea in an act of revenge, if not actually do him physical harm. However, the NHS medics were the very paragon of professionalism and he emerged from the hospital the following morning no worse off for the experience: \u201cIt was OK,\u201d he said, \u201cI\u2019ve slept in way worse hotels.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite having slammed the health service in his column, Jeremy says he had no complaints about the treatment he received: \u201cI genuinely couldn\u2019t find anything to moan about at all. The doctors, the nurses and everyone I met were kind. It was all spotless. Lunch was kids\u2019 food-brilliant, and they even made me better \u2014 for which I shall be eternally grateful.\u201d<\/p>\n

But nevertheless, Jeremy maintains that the NHS is simply unaffordable at its current scale, and warns that the chancellor will be forced to increase taxes in order to support it: \u201cRachel Reeves<\/a> is going to have to fleece absolutely everyone for more cash,\u201d he predicted.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe came for the farmers last time around. This time, I wouldn\u2019t be surprised if she came after your children\u2019s pocket money. And of course, she\u2019ll tell us she needs more money for the NHS.\u201d<\/p>\n

He listed a number of things that might be banned in order to lessen pressure on the health service, including tanning salons, wood-burning stoves, and meat, before going on to suggest that the government would encourage more migrants to move to the UK in order to lower wage bills.<\/p>\n

He maintains, too, that the NHS needs to be radically restructured, if not scrapped altogether: \u201cIt\u2019s an excellent organisation and the frontline staff are superb,\u201d he writes. \u201cBut in its current state, we as a nation cannot afford it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Not long after writing a scathing critique of the NHS, in which he claimed that many foreign doctors…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493798,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4316],"tags":[105,4348,162629,439,211,162628,38616,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-493797","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-healthcare-funding","11":"tag-jeremy-clarkson","12":"tag-nhs","13":"tag-nhs-critique","14":"tag-private-healthcare","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115361718276178083","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}