The Doctors’ Association UK (DAUK) is delighted to announce that Dr Rachel Clarke will be a speaker at our Jenny Vaughan Memorial Conference.
This free conference is in memory of our founder and former chair, Dr Jenny Vaughan OBE. It will feature a day of presentations and panels discussions on the causes she was passionate about.
Dr Clarke will talk about the impact of Covid and maintaining meaning and reward in medicine.
An NHS palliative care doctor, Dr Clarke is the author of multiple Sunday Times bestselling books about medicine.
Her most recent novel, The Story of a Heart (2024), tells the tale of a heart transplant that changed UK legal history. It was chosen as a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, a 2024 Book of the Year by Waterstones, the Times, The Guardian, Independent, New Scientist, New Statesman, Prospect, The Spectator and The Week, and if that was not enough shortlisted for the 2024 Baillie Gifford Prize!
Breathtaking (2021), adapted into a major ITV television series, revealed how NHS staff confronted the height of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Dear Life (2020), depicting Rachel’s work in palliative care, was shortlisted for the 2020 Costa Biography Award and longlisted for the 2020 Baillie Gifford Prize.
Broadcast journalist
Before going to medical school, Dr Clarke was a broadcast journalist. She produced and directed current affairs documentaries focusing on subjects such as the Iraq War and the civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
She continues to write regularly for the Guardian, Sunday Times, New Statesman and Lancet among others. She also appears regularly on television and radio.
After visiting Ukraine during the conflict in 2022, Dr Clarke co-founded Hospice Ukraine.
Hospice Ukraine is a UK-registered charity which supports the work of local palliative care teams across the country.
Conference
The conference takes place at the Wellcome Collective in London from 9am to 5pm on Saturday 17 May. Imran Khan KC has also been confirmed to speak.
Arrival and registration is from 8am, with the introduction starting at 9am.
The conference is free but donations and contributions can be made via our crowd funder. Please support our work.
