Action Party, in the North East Somerset constituency of Jacob Rees-Mogg. As a result, the BBC sacked him from his Bristol radio show. Writing Hammond co-authored Trust Me, I'm a Doctor (Metro Books) with Michael Mosley, the executive producer of the BBC2 series of the same name. There are two editions (1999 and 2002), both out of print. Hammond is the sole author of Medicine Balls - Consultations with the World's Greatest TV Doctor (2007, 2008) and Trust Me, I'm (Still) a Doctor (2008, 2009) and Sex, Sleep or Scrabble? - Seriously Funny Answers to Life's Quirkiest Questions (2009, 2010) and What Doctors Really Think...16 Years of Wit, Wisdom, and Lies (2014). His most recent book is Staying Alive: How to Get the Best From the NHS With David Spicer, Hammond wrote a four-part BBC Radio 4 satire called Polyoaks, about GPs struggling with the then-government's NHS reforms. First broadcast in June 2011, it starred Nigel Planer, Tony Gardner, Celia Imrie, David Westhead, Carla Mendonça, David Holt, Phil Cornwell and Kate O'Sullivan, with a second series of four transmitted in 2012. Spicer and Hammond's third series of four episodes of Polyoaks ran on BBC Radio 4 from 6 June 2014. The fourth series, consisting of six episodes, was broadcast in 2016. A fifth series has been commissioned for broadcast in 2017 In 1999, he was reported to the General Medical Council by William Hague's press secretary over an article he wrote about Hague's slow recovery from a cold. He writes for the Mendip Times, celebrating life on the Mendips and in surrounding areas. In 2021, he published Dr Hammond's Covid Casebook, a collection of 30 of his fortnightly columns in Private Eye which formed a detailed analysis of the management of the COVID-19 pandemic in England. Other roles Hammond is Vice President of the Patients Association and a patron of Meningitis UK, the Doctors Support Network, the Herpes Viruses Association, Patients First and Kissing It Better. He is an advisor for the Association of Young People with ME and a Champion for the Point of Care Foundation He is also a patron of My Death My Decision, an organisation which seeks a more compassionate approach to dying in the UK, including giving people the legal right to a medically assisted death if that is their persistent wish. References External links www.drphilhammond.com - Official website Phil Hammond's Biography : Chortle :