Reception
Britannia Hospital was a box-office failure. The film was lambasted by the British critics on release, although Geoff Daniel, David Robinson and Dilys Powell listed it as one of the films of the year. Britannia Hospital was withdrawn by EMI a month after its release. Critic Ian Haydn Smith considers Britannia Hospital the "nadir" of Anderson's career. "Replacing satire with broad comedy, the film fails on every level in its attempt to critique the state of the National Health Service". The film won the "Audience Jury Award" at Fantasporto.
It has since been widely available on both VHS and DVD.
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