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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

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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

The Guardian - UK

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

The Guardian - UK

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...

Woman & Home

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

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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

Evening Standard

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

Woman & Home

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.

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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

Evening Standard

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 Guardian - 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

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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’

The Guardian - UK

How can any of us move on from the pandemic in the face of Boris Johnson’s contempt?

As a doctor, I will never forget those who died during Covid. Seeing Johnson lying to and dodging their families is sickening, says palliative care doctor Rachel Clarke

The Guardian - UK

From Boiling Point to Breathtaking – the 15 best TV dramas for autumn 2023

Brie Larson in Lessons in Chemistry, Lenny Henry’s post-Windrush drama, the final series of Sex Education and The Crown – choice viewing as the nights draw in

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Breathtaking: cast, plot and everything we know

Breathtaking on ITV1 is set during the early days of the pandemic and follows a doctor played by Joanne Froggatt.

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Joanne Froggatt to star in ITV drama co-written by Line of Duty creator

Joanne Froggatt is set to star in Breathtaking, an ITV drama centered on the COVID-19 pandemic that's been co-written by Line of Duty creator, Jed Mercurio.

The Guardian - UK

‘The signs are too stark to ignore’: seven reasons the NHS is in crisis

As the NHS approaches its 75th anniversary, writers close to it reflect on the numbers behind its problems, and what it will take to heal the wounds

Daily Mirror

Max and Keira's inspirational donor story that led to law-change will be told in new book

Dr Rachel Clarke is interviewing the families of Mirror campaigner Max Johnson, 15, and his heart donor, Keira Ball. Her book will focus on Keira, whose organs saved Max and three others

Wales Online

Cruise ships could be used to house 'desperate citizens'

One council is exploring the idea

The Guardian - UK

Ministers could help the patients dying in NHS hospital corridors right now – they just choose not to

Be under no illusion: the hundreds of avoidable deaths in the NHS every week are the result of political decisions, says palliative care doctor Rachel Clarke

Daily Mirror

'Broken' NHS forces A&E staff 'to ask sick patients to monitor their own vital signs'

A&E workers have spoken of the 'Dickensian overcrowding' faced in hospitals as ten trusts declared Critical Incidents this week where services are crippled by staff shortages

The Guardian - UK

Will the autumn statement do enough to ease the recession? Our panel’s verdict

The chancellor has presented the government’s economic plans as Britain suffers the highest inflation for 40 years

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