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Hospital league tables risk sapping NHS morale

Letters: Pury Sharifi says tick boxes cannot measure continuity and compassion, while Alison Vaspe says naming and shaming is not the answer. Plus a letter from Sue Stephenson

The Guardian - UK

Wes Streeting, you must have a better plan for ailing hospitals than public humiliation

The plan to introduce league tables is a simplistic gimmick that will demoralise NHS staff – and sideline their incredible work, says palliative care doctor Rachel Clarke

The Guardian - UK

End of life care in England and Wales can’t cope with demand, say doctors opposed to assisted dying

Forecast indicates about 130,000 more people will need palliative care by 2048

The Guardian - UK

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Should MPs legalise assisted dying? Our panel responds

Today Westminster begins its scrutiny of a bill that could for ever change the way we live or die in England and Wales, say Rachel Clarke, Lucy Webster and others

The Guardian - UK

Nuclear war rehearsal and Gauguin biography make shortlist for Baillie Gifford prize

Books by Rachel Clarke, Richard Flanagan and Viet Thanh Nguyen are among the six competing for the nonfiction award

The Guardian - UK

Culture of fear in the NHS needs to change

Letter: A little time spent building happy, cohesive, empowered teams would transform the health service, says Dr Meher Pocha

The Guardian - UK

As a doctor, I’m no apologist for Wes Streeting – but here’s where he’s right about the NHS

NHS ‘senior sources’ blasted the health secretary for admitting the service is broken. I applaud him for telling the truth, says palliative care doctor Rachel Clarke

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The Story of a Heart by Rachel Clarke review – a doctor’s remarkable account of an organ transplant

The remarkable journey of a young girl’s heart to a young boy’s body is told in an accessible, humane way

The Guardian - UK

Doctor reveals ‘grim’ realities on NHS wards with staff giving ‘end-of-life’ care to patients on trollies

Staff sometimes have to have end of life conversations with patients on a trollies in A&E corridors, palliative care doctor says

The Independent UK

We are public sector workers – this is how more cuts would wreck our NHS, courts, councils and universities

After years of austerity, the government’s plans imply another reduction in funding that public services simply cannot take

The Guardian - UK

How physician associates are helping doctors, not replacing them

Letters: Letters: Dr Rubin Minhas and Dr Tim Lavin respond to an article by Dr Rachel Clarke on concerns about the role of these healthcare professionalsls

The Guardian - UK

What if your ‘physician’ wasn’t actually a doctor at all? Beware this new reckless experiment

The NHS says it’s not trying to replace qualified doctors with physician associates. But we can see the terrifying truth, says the palliative care doctor Rachel Clarke

The Guardian - UK

I can truly see the case for assisted dying. But the horrific state of the NHS makes me question if it is the best idea

I would feel deeply uncomfortable if patients ‘chose’ to die because care that would make life worth living was unavailable, says palliative care doctor Rachel Clarke

The Guardian - UK

The week in TV: The Way; Breathtaking; Boarders; Joe Lycett vs Sewage – review

Michael Sheen, James Graham and Adam Curtis create a chaotic vision of Welsh revolution; ITV’s Covid three-parter favours realism over drama; and race, class and privilege collide in the BBC’s cracking new public school satire

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Rage, relief and recognition: the TV version of my book Breathtaking has opened a floodgate

During the Covid pandemic, NHS staff were treated as expendable, says Rachel Clarke, a palliative care doctor and the author of Breathtaking

Woman & Home

Where is Breathtaking filmed? Everything you need to know about the ITV Covid drama's filming locations

Here's what you need to know about where ITV's Breathtaking was filmed...

The Guardian - UK

No sympathy for striking doctors? Watch ITV’s Breathtaking and ask: have we paid our debt to them?

The Covid drama should do for the medical profession what Mr Bates did for Post Office victims, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

Evening Standard

Breathtaking: how much of ITV's devastating new Covid-19 drama is true?

The show was written by three current or former doctors, including Line of Duty’s Jed Mercurio

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What is Breathtaking based on? The real story and book behind ITV's new Covid drama

ITV's new three-part drama following NHS medics during the Covid-19 pandemic is based on Dr Abbey Henderson's real experience

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How to watch 'Breathtaking' online now: stream the explosive Covid pandemic drama for free today

Joanne Froggatt is an under-pressure doctor on the frontline during the pandemic. Here is how to watch 'Breathtaking' in full online and from anywhere now, ahead of tonight's debut.

Evening Standard

Breathtaking: ITV's harrowing Covid drama depicts the experiences of a palliative doctor. Here's what to know

Rachel Clarke’s acclaimed 2021 book is being turned into a harrowing three-parter

The Guardian - UK

Studying medicine with a baby on board

Letter: Dr Rachel Clarke may have been the first medical student at Oxford to have a baby, but 50 years ago a fellow student gave birth halfway through our course at Barts, writes Dr Peter A Glanvill

The Guardian - UK

‘I detest bullies’: Dr Rachel Clarke on Jeremy Hunt, government lies and the long legacy of Covid

The ‘industrial scale of death’ on the Covid frontline left Clarke and her colleagues traumatised and underpaid while the powerful partied and profited. Now, her pandemic memoir is coming to TV with the help of Jed Mercurio

The Independent UK

20 TV shows everyone will be talking about in 2024, from One Day to the return of The Traitors

There’ll be plenty to hunker down and get stuck into over the next 12 months, with a stack of hearty comedies, hair-raising thrillers, and even a star-studded Jilly Cooper bonkbuster in the mix. Ellie Harrison and Katie Rosseinsky take a look

The Independent UK

Labour’s Wes Streeting claims ‘wasteful’ NHS using winter crises as excuse for cash

Shadow health secretary accused of ‘undermining trust’ in the health service – but he insists public must ‘hear the truth’

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