Last year you went to Ukraine with the neurosurgeon and fellow author, Henry Marsh. How did that all come about? When the war began, like everybody, we were desperate to help. And this incredible experience, despite that of meeting local teams, seeing the work that local palliative care doctors and hospices were trying to achieve despite conditions of war was very humbling. So now, we have set up a charity called hospice Ukraine to raise money to try and support everybody attempting to deliver palliative Care.
Ian Sample talks to Dr Rachel Clarke about her experience working in palliative care in the NHS and now with hospices in Ukraine. She tells him what dying can teach the living, what we can learn from the Covid pandemic, and reveals the anguish and defiance of trying to provide a dignified death in the midst of war. Help support our independent journalism at
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