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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 13/08/2026

Thank you so much for this review - I will never stop being astounded by the medical miracle that is organ donation 💙

Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 13/08/2026

It was a pleasure to contribute to this @theguardian.com “The Experts” piece on what death can teach us about how to live. No-one is ever an expert on mortality, but here are my personal top 4 lessons, distilled from everything my patients have taught me as palliative care doctor…

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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 15/05/2026

Shattering news from Ukraine. At least 24 people, including 3 children, killed in yesterday’s attack on Kyiv. It is so vital we don’t let this pass us by, nor glaze over, nor turn away. Russia will keep on murdering civilians in Ukraine for as long as it can. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

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At least 24 killed in Kyiv in one of deadliest Russian attacks since start of war – Europe live

The death toll included three children, Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said

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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 15/05/2026

Delighted and honoured to be speaking here in Dublin this afternoon @rcsi-medprof.bsky.social 💚🤍🧡

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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 26/04/2026

Thank you so much for taking the trouble to tell me, Mike. I am so glad it inspired you.

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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 26/04/2026

Honoured and delighted to be joining @rcsi-medprof.bsky.social's conference in Dublin on Friday 15th May. I'll be talking about the vital importance for our patients of speaking out with candour, even when the message may be difficult to hear. Full details via the QR code below.

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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 23/04/2026

💥💥 Tonight! 💥💥 Please join me, @drkathrynmannix.bsky.social & Sarah Perry online at 7pm discussing April's @hayfestival.bsky.social book club choice, Paul Kalanithi's wonderful "When Breath Becomes Air". Sign up is free 💙📚🩺

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Janne M. Korhonen @jmkorhonen.fi · 31/03/2026

This is all too real. These days, satire is just news but in teaser format.

A cartoon showing soldiers sitting in a transport plane with jump door open. One soldier asks "Where are we heading, sarge?". The soldier next to him answers "Not sure. But @DonnieJunior just made a $150M Polymarket bet on Kharg Island beachfront futures. By Wintersart (substack.com@wintersart).

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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 31/03/2026

They've trialled it - tomorrow it becomes mandatory.

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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 31/03/2026

So sorry to hear all this - what an ordeal for you ☹️

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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 31/03/2026

Yes, exactly. It won't increase capacity, just hide/ignore/fail to meet demand imo.

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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 31/03/2026

I believe this is a national health scandal from a govt that apparently cares more about good spin than it does about good patient care. If you feel the same, please – please – write to your MP & tell them why. Please shout about this online, anywhere you can. Don’t let this slide. Thank you.

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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 31/03/2026

..for the first Rheumatology, Neurology or Orthopaedics appointment they so desperately need are just, you know, malingering. (I recently spoke to a patient with a new diagnosis of multiple sclerosis who’d been waiting over six months to see a neurologist for the first time – simply scandalous.)..

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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 31/03/2026

..The aim, says the Times, is to reduce the number of hospital outpatient appointments by 30 million p/a. And the government, in a quite breathtaking example of political spin, is presenting this as “good” for patients - as though all those people who’ve been waiting months or even years..

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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 31/03/2026

..The Royal College of GPs has been crystal clear: “The use of advice and guidance should not be mandated in any area… We have heard reports of risks of delays, with tests being required before any referral, lost messages and staff without appropriate senior clinical oversight handling requests.”..

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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 31/03/2026

..that at best will delay patients’ access to the specialist treatment they need, at worse sacrifice those patients on the altar of fake news about “falling” waiting lists. You don’t need me to point out the potential patient safety risks. We all know that time, in medicine, can be everything..

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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 31/03/2026

Does this sound part of a plan to genuinely ‘fix’ the NHS, as Wes Streeting vowed he would do when taking up office - or more like a tactic to ration hospital care by overriding GPs in order to massage the waiting list figures? It is, of course, the latter, an extra layer of bureaucracy...

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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 31/03/2026

🧵/ The NHS is about to undergo one of the most radical – and scandalous - changes in its history. From 1st April (the public are the fools in this), GPs will be contractually obliged to seek remote “advice & guidance” from hospital clinicians, making it even harder to see an NHS specialist.

Screenshot of Times piece with headline "Millions to be denied hospital referrals in drive to cut waiting lists."

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Dinah Roe @preraphsrule.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

"Care is being undermined from every direction – from corporate kindwashing to the tech bros’ definition of empathy as weakness, from populist politicians stoking grievance & hate to the notion that if it can’t be counted, then it doesn’t have value."

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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 30/03/2026

Numbness & hopelessness are understandable responses to the powerlessness we feel today. But we are *not* powerless. Each of us has the capacity to do something radical & transformative here, now, today - by paying our full attention to another human being & relating to them with care. (4/4)

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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 30/03/2026

We are facing a crisis of carelessness. Care is being undermined from every direction – from corporate kindwashing to the tech bros’ definition of empathy as weakness, from populist politicians stoking grievance & hate to the notion that if it can’t be counted, then it doesn’t have value. (3/4)

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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 30/03/2026

It draws upon everything I've learned from my years in the NHS & as a journalist & author. It boils down to this: a fundamental, fierce conviction that the simple acts of care we extend to one another are not only the vital glue of human existence, but also our radical superpower. (2/4)

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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 30/03/2026

I am incredibly honoured be giving this year’s State of the Nation Lecture at Cambridge Lit Fest on Saturday 25 April, 12pm, in the beautiful setting of the Cambridge Union. My talk is entitled: “A Kindwashed Nation? Who Counts, What Counts and Making Britain Care Again” (1/4)

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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 22/03/2026

Golden Hill. Dazzling good. Never met anyone who didn’t love it.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

So it turns out Reform are laundering their donations through crypto, before converting them into cash, hiding the original source of the money. So who is really funding Nigel Farage and Reform UK? observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

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Reform accused of using third party to turn crypto into c...

Digital currency donations have been turned into sterling to make them much less easy to track, sources say

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó gave Russia inside access to EU meetings by calling Lavrov during breaks and sharing real-time updates, WaPo reports.

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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 22/03/2026

It was the honour of my life to win last year’s Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction & the madly idealistic, de Beauvoir-devouring 18-year-old me I describe in the piece above would have collapsed in astonishment if she had known what was to come. Glorious recommendations in the full piece - enjoy. (2/2)

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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 22/03/2026

What an absolute BLAST of book this is! Pure joy from start to finish. The sheer exuberance of these rollicking, riotous, fabulous pages. Francis Spufford is a storytelling genius. Thank you for giving me so much fun. Read this book, everyone - make your life sing!

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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 21/03/2026

Suboptimal for writing, but superlative for love #Harley 🩷

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

McGowan: You're saying 46 Americans died, so we should attack this country. Here at home, 68,000 Americans die a year because they don't have health insurance. So, if we're going to spend billions of dollars on something…

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Larry the Cat @number10cat.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

That's funny, I could have sworn he said something about not needing Royal Navy vessels because the war was already won. You broke it Don, you fix it.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

When I said 'Kemi Badenoch is so partisan, under her the Tories would oppose puppies and kittens if Labour said something nice about them', I didn't mean it literally.

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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 08/03/2026

A judge even tried to ban the word ‘rape’ from the courtroom. Throughout it all, her refusal to be cowed - and her insistence that shame must change sides - were, and remain, utterly inspiration. Thank you, Gisèle Pelicot. #IWD2026

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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 08/03/2026

Over and over again, scores of rapists seriously sought to use as their defence the claim that the lifeless form being abused on video ‘wanted’ it, ‘consented’ to it, ‘enjoyed’ it, and in truth was such a slut and whore she clearly didn’t count as worthy of human respect anyway...

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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 08/03/2026

On #IWD2026, it feels fitting to sing the praises of this extraordinary book, read beautifully by Emma Thompson. If you’ve yet to read it, please do. Gisèle Pelicot’s strength, courage & basic human decency ring out from its pages - as does the grotesque misogyny of her courtroom experience...

Cover of Gisele Pelicot's book A Hymn to Life

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