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Rachel Clarke (nee Rendall, born 1972) is a British writer and physician, specialising in end of life care at Katharine House Hospice, Oxford. She is the author of Breathtaking (2021), an account of working inside the NHS during the UK's first wave of COVID-19 , a work that formed the basis of a TV series of the same name .
Feb 19, 2024 · What does Dr Rachel Clarke want people to take from the show? "We need to remember this – we cannot forget it," she said. "It would do our NHS a disservice and all the people who died as well." Despite her contempt for many people involved in the decision making at the time, Dr Clarke said only two things mattered. "1.
- Emma Soteriou
Feb 22, 2024 · Dr Rachel Clarke is not only intelligent and passionate, but also strongly sticks up for what she believes is the right thing to do (Image: ITV/REX/Shutterstock). Finally qualifying in 2009, she ...
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Dr Clarke, who was a TV journalist before returning to train as a doctor just before her 30th birthday, has spoken about how she was initially working at a hospice as the signs of the pandemic ...
Dr Rachel Clarke is an author, journalist and doctor who wrote Breathtaking in 2021 before writing the television adaptation with Prasanna Puwanarajah and Jed Mercurio, both of who are also ...
Feb 19, 2024 · Breathtaking is based on a book of the same name published by Dr Clarke in 2021, based on her own traumatic personal experiences of the Covid-19 pandemic, which received many positive reviews from ...
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Feb 14, 2024 · Published: February 14, 2024. Q&A. Share this. Breathtaking, a powerful new ITV drama, tells the story of frontline NHS staff battling to save patients during the Covid-19 pandemic. It is based on Dr Rachel Clarke’s memoir of the same name. We spoke to Rachel ahead of the series being broadcast.
