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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 20, 2024 · Rachel Clarke’s panic attack came in January 2021. It was just over nine months after the Government called the first UK lockdown and only days before the publication of her Covid memoir,...
- Robin Parker
Feb 20, 2024 · It's weeks before the UK's first national lockdown and Dr Clarke is surrounded by patients dying in hospital beds alone, colleagues falling fatally ill and PPE on rations....
Feb 19, 2024 · Dr Rachel Clarke worked on the frontline during Covid, caring for patients in their final hours. She released a book named Breathtaking in 2021 telling "the UK's human story of Covid" - the inspiration for the drama series.
- Emma Soteriou
Feb 19, 2024 · Everything that viewers see is something that happened to Rachel or another NHS worker including nurses making their own PPE equipment, and a Zoom phone call from an Italian doctor who warned...
- Josie Copson
Feb 19, 2024 · But what many viewers might not realise about the new ITV series is how the show draws on the real life experiences of NHS’s Dr Rachel Clarke, who spent years working in wards and experienced the...
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Feb 19, 2024 · She reveals in an interview with ITV that while the characters and hospital in Breathtaking are fictional, what happens in the show is absolutely what happened to real doctors, patients and NHS...
