Rachel Clarke: Jeremy Hunt, I’m after you

Biography

Rachel Clarke is a junior doctor working in Oxford, who sprang to prominence during the junior doctors’ dispute in a series of articles, tweets, and protests against the new contract. She came to medicine late, giving up a job producing and directing Channel 4 documentaries after an incident packed television career that took her to some sticky places. She absolutely refused to take the new juniors’ contract lying down, although she did sit down (with Dagan Lonsdale) outside Jeremy Hunt’s office to try to force him to negotiate. “I left TV because medicine was in my blood, and I knew I’d always regret not becoming a doctor,” she says. Her book, Your Life in My Hands, is due out in July.