Read our Privacy noticeJeremy Clarkson has praised the NHS following a hospital visit that occurred hours after calling the service a “creaking monster” that needed a “rethink”. The former Top Gear host has not revealed details about his health scare, but he did say that he required urgent treatment, which his private health care could not provide for him. Clarkson said that his private health service could only find him treatment two hours away in London, so he instead had to use an NHS facility in Oxford. Speaking of his experience in his Sunday Times column, Clarkson said that he “genuinely couldn’t find anything to moan about at all”. open image in gallery The latest season of Clarkson’s Farm aired earlier this year ( Getty )Clarkson ended his latest column by declaring that, despite receiving good care, he still believed the NHS needed to be changed.

Source: The Times October 13, 2025 15:02 UTC